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MENTAL ANALYSIS 



HOW TO UNLOCK 

YOUR 

SUBCONSCIOUS 

MIND 

THROUGH THE SCIENCE OF 
MENTAL ANALYSIS 



ELSIE LINCOLN BENEDICT 
RALPH PAINE BENEDICT 



PRINTED AND BOUND BY 

THE ROYCROFTERS AT THEIR SHOPS AT 

EAST AURORA, NEW YORK 



*>* 



Copyright, 1921 

By 

Elsie Lincoln Benedict 

and 

Ralph Paine Benedict 

All rights reserved 



Mi 24 1922 



©CI.AB77116 



CONTENTS 

Profound Truths Plainly Told 9 

Your Secret, Subconscious Self - - 19 

LESSON I 

How Our Dreams Reveal Us 57 

LESSON II 

Your Emotional Niagara - - - 97 

LESSON III 

Dissolving Our Fixed Fears - 137 

LESSON IV 

Mental Miracles - - - - - 181 

LESSON V 

Love, Courtship and Marriage - - 223 

LESSON VI 

Success Through The Subconscious - - 275 

LESSON VII 

How You Attain Your Supreme Wish - 317 



DEDICATED 

TO 

OUR STUDENTS 



"V 



Profound Truths Plainly Told 

O you recall the 
slightly baffled 
sensation you ex- 
perienced when 
a physician to 
whom you had 
gone in time of 
need handed you 
a prescription? 

You took the 
1 'scrap of paper" 
because there was nothing else to do, and on 
your way to the drug store scanned it inter- 
estedly trying to decipher its meaning and 
especially to figure out what bearing these 
mysterious hieroglyphics could have on your 
very real and very personal problem. 

But you decided, about the time you found 
the prescription clerk, 't were a vain ambition 
for a mere average man to aspire to under- 
stand the cryptic scientific code, bandied so 
nonchalantly between these wise technicians. 
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You confessed it quite over your head, paid 
the bill and tried to forget it. 

Could you have stepped behind the counter 
and heard the drug clerk translating your 
prescription to himself it would have amused 
you to see to what agony scientist No. I had 
gone to put into Latin for scientist No. 2 the 
simple directions for concocting for you a 
simple remedy which in plain United States 
was simple peppermint or castor oil. 

The scientists in this case are going on 
the ancient theory that they would lose your 
respect and incidentally your money if they 
came down off their Minerva-like pedestals 
and told you the everyday contents of this 
bottle. Moreover, you might be able to make 
your own medicine next time, apply your 
own remedy — and THEN where would they 
be! SS 3S 

Medical science has contributed much 
to the health and happiness of man, but it 
could have helped much more and many 
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more had it been placed within the reach of 
the everyday man as it might easily have 
been! S3 S3 

Now comes a new human science called 
Psychoanalysis — a science destined to do for 
mankind far greater things than medical 
science has ever done; to cure not only the 
mind, which the physician overlooks, but 
physical ailments the physician has never 
been able to reach. 

It is not an intricate science. It deals, as 
do all sciences, with the simple though stu- 
pendous facts of everyday life. It can be used 
by every individual who once secures an under- 
standing of it, and help him in the solution 
of his most pressing, personal problems. 

But practically everything that has been 
given out to date has been, like the prescrip- 
tion, couched in mysterious phraseology, and 
written by scientists to other scientists over 
the heads of the everyday man whose suffer- 
ings they purport to relieve. 
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Musicians will play the ultra-classical, 
though it put the audience to snoring in 
eight minutes, and scorn the simple things 
everybody longs for; because they play not 
for the people but for their critical contem- 
poraries 33 33 

Singers sing to their contemporaries, 
learned men talk to the learned, scientific 
writers write for other scientific writers — all 
out of fear. 

Between and around these few are the 
unlearned, the unmusical, the unscientific — 
that backbone of the nation, Mr. and Mrs. 
Everyday American and their children. 

They are in trouble. Worry, fear, poverty, 
grief, sorrow, disappointments and disillu- 
sionments overwhelm them. 

When the struggle becomes acute the most 
intelligent go to books for help. Among other 
things they read reams on this new and 
wonderful psychoanalysis. 

It is about as understandable as the pre- 
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scription. The reader, like the patient, seeks, 
struggles, pays the bill and tries to forget. 

But he can't forget because the problem 
is still unsolved, not because psychoanalysis 
could not have solved it, but because he 
found nothing understandable to apply to 
his own troubles. 

Here is a course, putting into plain, 
simple American terms the scientific truths 
recently discovered about the subconscious 
mind, with definite, specific explanations of 
exactly what it is, how it works, where it 
comes from, where and how it so vitally 
affects your life; plus definite specific instruc- 
tions for applying this knowledge to your 
own personal affairs — in short, a prescription 
in English. 

It is so plain you can make your own 
medicine next time, and after a while perhaps 
avoid the necessity for remedies altogether. 

There is nothing in this course a child can 
fail to understand, yet every word is scientifi- 
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cally accurate and deals with the greatest 
problems of human life. 

After all, nothing in the world need be 
made mysterious. Nature is performing 
miracles all the time, but she speaks a simple 
language. All the greatest facts of life can be 
stated in clear, helpful terms and made to do 
something worth while. Therefore, to begin 
with, the name of this course which includes 
all the significant and thoroughly tested ele- 
ments of psychoanalysis and also those of 
everyday human psychology is translated 
into plain American Mental Analysis. 

Clews to Our Intimate Mysteries 

<I Here are a few of the hundreds of questions 
about ourselves which are answered in this 
pleasurable, practical course: 

Why are we so different in our dreams from 
the person we are in real life? 

How does unhappiness produce disease 
and why do joy and success cure it? 
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i i 

Why do the rich, the powerful, the beloved 
and beautiful commit suicide? 

Why do criminals always go back to the 
scene of the crime? 

Why does falling in love improve your 
mental, physical and spiritual health? 

Why do we sometimes hate the one we 
most love? 

Why does a wife call her husband " just 
a big boy" when he also thinks of her as " a 
mere child? " 

What is the true explanation of love at 
first sight? 

Why do we get over our wildest love affairs 
while tamer ones last through the years? 

Why do lovers often feel sure they have 
met and mated in a previous existence? 

Why do we take instantaneous and intense 
dislikes to people? 

Why do boys fall in love with older women 
and girls have violent loves for mature men? 

And how does this reconcile itself to the 
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fact that women dislike to marry men 
younger than themselves while the older the 
man the younger he wants his wife to be? 

Why do you change certain details when 
relating a dream? 

Why are we afraid of certain things and 
why do we avoid certain others without 
knowing why? 

Why do we often become angry, morose, 
elated or excited over trifles? 

Why do we forget the names of people we 
know perfectly well, misspeak ourselves and 
say things we don't mean before we realize it? 

Why are we poor when we want money so 
badly? 33 33 

What is the secret of every person's supreme 
subconscious wish? 



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1 9 m daily looking for a man 

As on my way I go — 
His features and his general plan 

I greatly wish to know. 

He is that MAN INSIDE 0' ME 

That holds the most of good 
I hat I myself some day might be, 

If I but understood. 

— John Kendrick Bangs 



Your Secret, Subconscious Self 

ROM the deck of 
a steamer you see 
an iceberg. Always 
afterward you 
think of it as con- 
sisting of just 
what you saw — 
no more and no 
less. You describe 
its outlines to 
your friends and 

explain its size and shape as being what was 

visible to your eye. 

Yet you saw but one-tenth of that iceberg. 

The other nine-tenths were floating beneath 

the surface, entirely out of sight. 

If you have never seen a big iceberg, drop a 

miniature one into your glass next time you 

are at table, and the same thing on a smaller 

scale will happen. 

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Your Two Minds 

<J Your mind is like that iceberg. It has its 
upper and nether parts — the conscious and 
subconscious. The conscious may be likened 
to the tenth of the iceberg which is discernible 
above the surface, for its operations and 
processes are always apparent to you. It 
consists of the thoughts you think from 
moment to moment in your waking hours, 
but lose when you fall asleep. 

This conscious mind is busy handling the 
experiences which arise in your environment 
— the " awareness' ' of your surroundings, 
sensations of what you are doing, seeing, 
tasting, touching, smelling. All plans, visual- 
izations and imaginings which catch and 
hold your attention are also a part of this 
surface mind. 

You express this conscious mind more or 

less externally and can readily detect its 

operations. You can open the door on it any 

instant and catch it at work. Right now, for 

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instance, you can watch your mind thinking 
of this page and what you are reading. You 
can look on while it reasons, judges and 
decides about what is printed here. 

In short, this conscious element of your 
mind is the mind we are all familiar with, the 
mind we have always known we possessed, 
the mind dealt with in academic psychology, 
the mind that does our conscious thinking. 

The Submerged Nine-Tenths 

<I But recent discoveries have shown that 
this surface mind, which we had supposed 
comprised all our mental processes, is less 
than one-tenth of the total human conscious- 
ness 53 53 

These discoveries reveal that underneath 
this conscious mind, part and parcel of it, 
bound up and wound around it, powerfully 
influencing it but out of sight are the "sub- 
merged nine- tenths" called the subcon- 
scious 53 53 

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What Is The Subconscious? 

fl This subconscious is the warehouse in which 
you have been unconsciously and involun- 
tarily storing away all the impressions, 
memories, feelings, accumulated force and 
"aftermaths" of everything that has ever 
happened to you. 

This means not only all the things you are 
conscious of having experienced but millions 
of sensations you were unaware of at the time. 
All have stowed themselves away down there 
in the pigeonhole of that submerged nine- 
tenths of your consciousness, to be heard 
from later in life. 

Many of the mysteries about yourself which 
have baffled, discouraged or inspired you are 
solved by the new science of Mental Analysis, 
which explains this secret self that lies deeply 
buried but always active within each of us. 

Retail and Wholesale Thinking 

fl[ The conscious mind may be called the 

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11 retailer mind." It is compelled to deal with 
non-essentials, the externals of your hourly 
experiences, the thousands of details that 
arise in your immediate environment. 

But your subconscious mind knows noth- 
ing of these. All its power is directed toward 
the attainment of your deepest desires. It is 
a wholesaler and does things only in the by- 
and-large 33 33 

It is not so much concerned with what you 
are doing, saying or experiencing at this 
moment, as with the massed result of the 
experiences through which you have already 
passed, plus the probable effect upon you 
of those you are now facing. 

Your subconscious mind does not so much 
think as feel. It does not believe or reason, as 
does your conscious mind. It knows. 

Your Subconscious Ocean 

^f Nothing you see, hear, say, think, do, feel, 
or experience is ever lost. Each is preserved 

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forever in the deeps of your subconsciousness. 

It is as though you lived in a houseboat on 
a great ocean, into whose depths something 
dropped every time you had a thought, a 
feeling or any kind of experience whatever. 

Some of these are of such a nature as to 
throw overboard the seeds from which would 
grow beautiful water lilies, ferns and lacey 
mosses. Some would bring forth weeds, others 
poison ivy, while others would fringe the 
shore with great trees whose strength would 
delight you and whose shade would comfort 
and bless all who came that way. 

Some of your deeds and desires would fling 
into this ocean only trash — chunks of pig iron, 
bits of wood, baubles, toys, debris — trap- 
pings and trimmings of idle moments, dark 
thoughts, primitive instincts — all would lie 
there at the bottom of the sea. Divers could 
find every one — some distorted, some washed 
cleaner than when they went in, but each and 
every one affected in some way by being there. 
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Many of the thoughts and things we had 
supposed lifeless would turn out to be fertile 
seeds. They would have sprouted all manner 
of strange, exotic, ugly and beautiful plants, 
each bearing fruit according to its nature 
and sending up to the ocean's surface the 
results natural to itself. 

We do and say many things which are the 
result of the things we previously submerged 
in this subconscious sea. 

The Stranger in Your Skin 

<I A man does things that are "foreign" to 
him — not what he intended. They seem to 
do themselves. 

He means to say a certain thing, to express 
a certain thought and instead says something 
entirely different. He forgets the names of 
people he knows perfectly well, answers " No " 
when he means ' ' Yes, ' ' and in a hundred ways 
entangles himself against his will. 

He says " that was accidental," " I said 
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that unconsciously/ ' or " I wasn't myself." 
But none of these is really true. The fact 
of the matter is that all of them were done by 
his subconscious. They are not accidental 
but in accordance with the definite law that 
we tend constantly to express to the outer 
world whatever is in the back of our minds. 
We also tend to forget whatever is dis- 
pleasing to the ego and to remember what- 
ever is pleasing to it. 

The Actor's Story 

<I One of the well known actors in America 
told us this: 

" I am often asked to dinners and other 
social affairs with people in whom I have no 
interest whatever — people with whom I have 
nothing in common and with whom I would 
rather not be bothered. 

41 1 found that almost invariably I jotted 
down these engagements on my calendar for 
the day following the actual date, and was 
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always being called up afterward and re- 
minded of my absence. 

" After a while it dawned on me that 
my subconscious wish not to go caused me 
habitually but innocently to put down the 
wrong date and always to make the mistake 
for the day after so that it would be safely 
over before I could be reminded. 

" I arrived at these conclusions because 
of another strange experience I was always 
having of putting down engagements with 
personal friends for the date previous to 
that in the invitation, evidently because I 
was subconsciously anxious to go. 

" More than once I arrived at these houses 
a day or even two days prior to the party — 
as unconscious of this mistake as I was of 
the opposite one/ ' 

In Our Own Lives 

<I In a lesser degree these experiences happen 
to all of us — as when we find it so easy to be 

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C =3 

early at any affair we wish to attend, but 
late tc things we dislike. 

Memory's Treasure Vault 

^f The subconscious has also been called " the 
treasure vault of memory." In it is preserved 
the record of everything we have ever heard, 
seen, read, learned. 

It never forgets. Everything you ever knew 
you know still — whether your memory is able 
to dive down and bring it from the bottom 
of your consciousness at this moment or not. 

One reason why all persons are not able to, 
do this now is that we have, until the last 
few years, been ignorant of the fact that 
the mind did remember, and have taken it 
for granted that things passed entirely out of 
our mental grasp — that we had " forgotten." 

A clearer understanding of the subconscious 
enables even the beginner to revive in con- 
sciousness many things he had imagined 
completely erased from memory. 
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The Subconscious Never Sleeps 
<I The subconscious is always on the alert. 
We now know with complete certainty that 
it never sleeps — in fact, that it is more active 
when the conscious mind sleeps than during 
our waking hours. 

We have seen proof of this many times in 
our own lives — as, for instance, when we can 
awaken without an alarm clock to catch a 
4 a. m. train if we really want to take the 
journey 53 33 

Nurses in hospital wards full of patients 
sleep soundly through all manner of outcries 
but awaken at the whispered request of their 
own patients. A mother sleeps through many 
disturbances but rouses at the merest move- 
ment of her sick child. 

The country man upon coming to the city 
is unable to sleep the first few nights but his 
subconscious soon adapts itself and he sleeps 
as soundly through those same noises a week 
later as he did out on the farm. 
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Bridge Between Mind and Body 

<I " Does the mind have a body or does the 
body have a mind?" is a question over which 
the philosophers have wrangled for centuries. 
Today we know that both are true and that 
the subconscious mind, of which these ancient 
arguers were unaware, is the bridge between 
the body and the mind. 

The conscious mind functions through the 
brain but the subconscious functions 
throughout the entire body — the cerebrum, 
the muscles, the solar plexus, the nerves — 
apparently through every cell in both body 
and brain 33 5S 

That this is no far-fetched theory is shown 
in the fact that its first American exponent 
was that greatest living material scientist, 
Thomas A. Edison. He says, " Every cell 
in us thinks/ ' and has proven to his own 
satisfaction that nothing is dead matter but 
all is living energy expressing itself in various 
forms SS 5& 

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Inner Recesses and Outer Results 

<I There have always been those who realized 
the influence of these submerged selves of 
ours and there is not a thinking human but 
who realizes that many things in his life, 
however much they may mystify others, are 
but the outward expression of something 
in his inner life. 

But it requires an unusually high grade 
of intelligence and an unusually frank heart 
to acknowledge what Mental Analysis shows 
us so clearly today — that: 

Your money, 

Your possessions, 

Your good luck and bad luck, 

Your ill health or perfect health, 

Your environment, 

Your life as a whole — 

are the harvests from seeds you planted in 

the soil of your subconscious in days gone by. 

But whether you realize it or not, these 

things are true. You are reaping what you 

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have sown. The results are in accordance 
with laws — laws that are inexorable, unchang- 
ing, and absolutely impersonal. 

Your life today is the net result of your 
yesterdays. Your tomorrows will be the net 
result of those yesterdays plus the seeds you 
are planting today, this hour and this instant. 

The only way to make the tomorrows what 
you wish them to be is to learn what you have 
already planted, how to uproot the weak and 
cultivate the strong things that are growing 
in your personality, and how to plant from 
this hour onward only the seeds whose fruit 
you desire to reap in your coming years. 

This course, by showing you these things, 
can enable you to remake your life, as it 
has already done for thousands of our former 
students 33 53 

The Secret of the Famous 

<I All great souls have recognized and 
declared that they were strangely aided by 

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something within themselves but which they 
did not " reason out." 

Every famous composer has said, " No, 
I can't tell you how I thought out the music 
because I did not do so. It came to me. I put 
down what came." 

Every great poet has said, " I can not tell 
you how I wrote this poem because I do not 
know. It said itself in my mind, and I wrote 
it down/ ' S3 53 

Every famous orator has said, " The right 
thoughts never come when I am trying to 
write out a speech. My audience is the other 
half of me. The best ideas come only when I 
am face to face with the crowd." 

Every illustrious minister has declared, 
" The best parts of my sermons are never 
written in my study but come into my mind 
as I stand before my congregation. " 

The " flash of inspiration' ' which comes 
to the lawyer at the crucial moment in his 
trial of a case, comes not from his conscious 

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but from his subconscious mind, as he will 
tell you himself. 

The reason so few people achieve greatness 
is not that there are but few with the spark 
of genius in them, but the source of greatness 
— the subconscious mind — is clogged in all 
but the few. The mental machinery of most 
people is full of monkey wrenches and junk, 
the brakes are all on and the cylinders are 
skipping 33 33 

The average mind is as disorganized as a 
rag bag 33 33 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

^ Almost every individual leads a Dr. Jekyll 
and Mr. Hyde life, with part of his mind 
pulling one way and another pulling the 
opposite. Then he wonders why this split 
personality makes no more progress. 

There is no mystery about it. Such a man 
is never able to present a solid front to the 
world 33 33 

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A unified personality is the first requisite 
for success or happiness under any condition 
whatever 53 53 

The energies, mentality and interests of 
the average individual are disorganized, 
disrupted, chaotic, jumbled in a mixed-up 
heap. Few people see the ruinous effect of this 
splitting of the personality, and some even 
consider it an achievement. 

A man calls himself clever when he is able 
to live one life outwardly and another inward- 
ly. He is able to appear at a social affair 
disliking the whole thing — the guests, the 
interruption to his business, even the hostess 
— and all the while talk and act as though 
charmed, flattered, delighted and happy. 

11 Good gracious, what an insufferable 
bore!" he exclaims to his wife the instant 
they are out of earshot. 

" Society compels me to lead this double 
life," he will say, " My business requires it, 
social amenities demand it." 

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And to an extent these are true. But we are 
coming to realize that insincerity of any kind, 
reacts back on the personality with fatal 
consequences 53 53 

First among these consequences is the dis- 
integrating of the consciousness and no man 
can succeed whose two minds are not work- 
ing in harmony. 

The Penalty of Pretense 

<I It is not easy to lead double lives, even 
though they be comparatively innocent ones. 
Concealed facts are always popping out into 
open sight. Slips of the tongue, glances and 
postures — a hundred things betray the man 
who would keep out of sight his real and 
actual self. 

The subconscious is like a vast irrigation 
system with every muscle a tiny headgate 
in the great network. A man may learn to 
watch one or two or even a dozen of these 
headgates in eyes, mouth, voice and manner 

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— but they are so numerous he can not 
watch them all, and from whence he least 
expects it there will break out the tell-tale 
overflow 53 53 

A Practical Personal Science 

<I This latest of the human sciences shows us 
what we have been doing to ourselves, our 
lives, our chances in life, our loves, hopes 
and aspirations; how we have been uncon- 
sciously poisoning our own wells at their 
source; how we have administered mental 
narcotics to ourselves when we most needed 
mental stimulation; how we have built up 
the present from our own individual, racial 
and biological past into a structure in which 
we now live and through which our person- 
alities function, express themselves and meet 
the world 53 53 

It shows how we may easily and immedi- 
ately reverse the process and begin to get 
the things we want out of life. 

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^f It is an essentially practical, personal 
science, dealing with our everyday problems 
in an everyday way. 

Our aim and our accomplishment to date 
has been to give it to the student in such 
simple and straightforward language that 
it begins from the first moment to help him 
in the solution of his most intimate, inward 
affairs. It will do this for you. It will give 
you the insight into your own mentality 
which will explain to you — 

Why you think and feel as you do; 

Why you have gotten no farther in life; 

Why some succeed and others fail. 

What Are You Preparing For ? 

<R Elbert Hubbard stated a great truth 
when he said, " We get what we prepare for." 
People bring their own unhappiness. That 
they do so innocently, blindly, unknowingly 
does not help matters. " Ignorance of the 
law excuses no man." 

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The laws which rule us and our lives are 
divine, unalterable. He who obeys them, 
whether he do so consciously or uncon- 
sciously, reaps the rewards that other people 
call " good luck." He who consciously or 
unconsciously violates them pays the penal- 
ties he calls his " bad luck." 

The supremest effort of life, therefore, 
should be to learn what the laws are which 
rule human happiness and how they operate, 
that we may consciously and constantly 
plant the seeds for the harvests we want. 

This course in Mental Analysis has made 
these laws so clear, concise, graphic and under- 
standable that any one can put them to use 
in the solving of his everyday problems. They 
bring results from the first moment of apply- 
ing them, in happiness, health and success. 

Skepticism and Criticism 

<I Some may say, ' i These things sound impos- 
sible/ ' It is inevitable that some would say 

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this. Every step in human progress has been 
opposed at first and forced to fight its way 
to recognition against skepticism and criti- 
cism 33 33 

This is due to the well-known psycho- 
logical fact that the average individual does 
not think for himself, even about his own 
most serious problems, but gives himself 
ready-made and outworn excuses for his fail- 
ures and flatteringly false congratulations 
for his success. 

Such a one refuses to believe a new thing 
because it is new. Thinking men and women 
know that the human race is in the infant 
stage of its development; that a few hundred 
years from now human beings will be doing 
things as far beyond our present achievements 
as ours are beyond those of prehistoric man. 

And those who have given the subject 

thought realize that this progress is coming, 

as it has already begun to come, through 

the one thing that has given man sovereignty 

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over the globe — further understanding and 
development of his consciousness. 

Man is superior to animals in proportion 
as his mind is superior to theirs. One man 
is superior to another and achieves results 
superior to the other's in exact proportion as 
his mind is in better working order, more under 
his control and better understood by him. 

Why We Were Not Told 

•I " If I bring my own sufferings and successes 
why have I not been taught this before?" 
others will ask. 

There is but one answer. We are never 
taught the things most vital to human happi- 
ness S3 53 

Fathers and mothers are so busy getting 
food for their children's stomachs and clothes 
for their backs, they have no time or energy 
to investigate or explain either to themselves 
or to their children how the human mind 
controls human happiness. 
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The result is that parents who would not 
think of feeding their children's intestines 
canned food, feed their intellects with canned 
ideas — ideas so outworn, so stale and putrid 
that the child is forever handicapped in the 
race of life. 

Teachers and preachers — the other two 
forces which train the young mind— are so 
harassed by the overpowering problem of 
making small salaries suffice for necessities 
that they have neither heart nor head for 
remoter human ones. 

Favorite Fibs 

^f Thus we grow up, knowing "a. lot of 
things that ain't so" — things that are easy 
to teach, pretty to preach, but impossible to 
live up to. 

We are told that ' ' virtue is its own reward ' ' 
— and see the most virtuous people all around 
us rewarded with kicks and poverty. 

We are told that " genius is the art of 
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taking infinite pains' ' — only to discover that 
the most painstaking people are in book- 
keeping cages getting $20 a week, while every 
genius is notoriously incapable of taking 
pains with anything save what he loves — 
even his shoe laces! 

We are taught that " success comes from 
hard work" — but note how the day laborer 
gets four dollars for working his hands eight 
hours, while the banker makes a fortune by 
working his head four hours a day and play- 
ing golf the rest of the time. 

The Secret of Success 

flf The secret of success is not hard work, 
painstaking effort, nor even virtue — though 
each of these is essential to supreme happi- 
ness 33 33 

The secret of success for every human being 
lies in the harmonious working of his con- 
scious and subconscious powers. 

Those who have succeeded have, in every 

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instance, consciously or unconsciously, used 
their minds as they were intended to be used; 
those who failed unconsciously violated the 
laws of the mind and reaped the inevitable 
result S$ 53 

Purpose of the Subconscious 

<& This submerged nine-tenths of the con- 
sciousness is of the utmost significance in 
every human life. It has unlimited capacity 
for good or evil, according as it is used or 
misused. Each individual's life is made or 
marred by this vast subterranean sea of 
urges and impulses. 

This great self is infinitely strong, infinitely 
courageous, infinitely powerful. It exists for 
one purpose, and one only — to externalize 
you, to bring you self-expression, to secure for 
you an untrammelled personality, to attain 
for you your supreme subconscious aim. 

From birth to death it strives to set you 
free, to enable you to be yourself, your truest, 
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realest self; that happy successful self you 
were created to be; the great self you may be, 
can be, and shall be. 

The Supreme Wish 

<I The greatest psychological discovery of 
recent ages shows us that the entire person- 
ality of every human being is built around 
some one deep, consuming desire — some 
supreme subconscious wish. 

In one individual this supreme desire is 
for one thing, in another for something else, 
depending on the type and temperament 
of each, but no human being lives who does 
not have some deep desire at the core of his 
heart 33 S& 

Life Built Around the Wish 

<I That every man builds his life around 
this supreme wish is the explanation of many 
of our otherwise incredible inconsistencies, 
strange reactions, and of the remarkable 

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accomplishments of apparently mediocre men 
and women. 

Many persons know what their supreme 
life wish is. The most successful always know, 
and their success is due more to this knowl- 
edge than to any other one thing. 

When we say "that man knows his own 
mind," we are saying much more than we 
realize. For there are many who do not know 
and these many are the failures in life. 

Those who only guess are the half-failures. 

No Hard Work Necessary 

<I In utilizing your subconsciousness, stren- 
uous effort is neither necessary nor desirable. 
This mind is already organized and ready 
to work out for you whatever you desire. It 
does not need urging. It is the real you. It 
contains all your aspirations and impulses 
already. It does not require encouragement 
any more than a river needs to be encouraged 
to flow to the sea. 

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All it needs is direction. It is keyed for 
action, and has been every day since you 
were born. It is like a race horse that has 
been trained for the track. Take the reins in 
your hand and let it work for you. 

You have never tested the powers within 
your own personality because society, schools, 
teachers, preachers and parents are organized 
against every kind of spontaneous expression 
of the individual. 

That is why it is in danger of committing 
suicide — this society of ours. That is why 
some of its members are constantly turning 
against it and doing damage in the form 
of murder and war. 

We must live understanding^ before we 
can live uprightly. 

" Getting Gut of Yourself" 

^ Do not waste time and energy trying to 
" get out of yourself.' ' The man who tries 
to get out of himself before he has cleaned 

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house is working in the wrong direction. 

The person who feels impelled to get out 
of himself has something wrong inside which 
he can not bear to look at. So he goes to 
the theatre, drinks, gambles, speeds, scolds, 
spends money and time foolishly. 

But it does no good. He can not get away 
from himself. The moment the excitement 
is over back he slumps to the old self which 
is worse than it was before, because it knows 
and he knows the wasting of time, energy, 
money and thought in the attempt to drown 
his troubles has harmed him, entangled him 
more deeply and pushed him farther back 
than ever. 

The teaching, " forget yourself for the 
world " is a beautiful ideal — one we must 
more and more live up to if we hope to be 
truly happy. It is necessary to the progress 
of the world for us to lose ourselves in 
self-forgetful service. 

But we must learn how to do it. No one 
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takes very long steps toward it until he 
settles his " internal warfare." 

Every Day Illustrations 

<R Your subconscious is either backing your 
work or " bucking it." It will back you in any- 
thing that is in accordance with your supreme 
wish. You will do the amazing tasks with 
amazing ease once you start. 

But anything which is in opposition to 
it will go slowly, sadly, heavily, and inef- 
ficiently 33 33 

Whatever aids and abets your supreme 
subconscious aim you will labor over for 
long hours absolutely without fatigue, but 
whatever takes you in the opposite direction 
leaves you actually physically exhausted at 
the end of ten minutes. 

How gladly and gaily we do a task today 

when it furthers some particular project! How 

glumly and grumpily we do thevery same thing 

tomorrow if it no longer furthers that project. 

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With what vim a young girl who has 
always disliked housework helps mother with 
dinner and the dishes when her young man 
is there to see! 

How easy it is to forget the bills we owe — 
but how that same memory of ours does 
work when the other fellow owes us! 

How simple to remember the addresses, 
the initials, and even the telephone numbers 
of new people we are interested in, and how 
difficult to remember even the names of those 
we are indifferent to! The only difference in all 
these cases is the difference in the way in which 
a subconscious wish is affected. 

Why We Fail 

<I " If it is possible for my subconscious to 
get for me anything I wish why have I never 
gotten the things I most desired?' ' is a reason- 
able and inevitable question. Because you 
have violated the laws whereby the subcon- 
scious operates. 

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You, like everything else in the universe, 
are a part OF, not apart FROM natural 
law. Your being is responsive to and built 
in accordance with certain divine rules, regu- 
lations and edicts. When you disobey those 
you suffer, when you obey them you succeed. 

The First Law of the Subconscious 

<I You must free your subconscious of the 
shackles with which you have all your life 
crippled it; you must take off the throttles 
with which you have been choking it; you 
must give the strong self of you a chance to 
work for you; you must take your hands off 
the bridle of this swift racer that champs at 
the bit, and let him go. 

Every great, successful, big or famous 
person has differed from the failures wholly 
and solely in proportion as he learned there 
was a deep voice within him, listened to 
that voice, and let it out for all the world 
to hear! 33 S& 

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Your Problem Is You 

<j[ First of all get rid of the notion that people 
and things and life in general are " against 
you." Nothing can harm you but yourself 
and the only way you can permanently hurt 
yourself is by the misuse of your mentality. 
Luck is not against you. Luck is what 
you make it. Conditions and circumstances 
may be adverse to you at this moment, but 
if so, they are the ones you have made by 
your previous thinking. Stop that kind of 
thinking or you will go on piling up more 
adverse conditions for tomorrow. 

Your Invisible Self 

<J Your subconscious may be compared to 
a great ocean liner. As we gaze at her across 
the blue ocean what do we see? 

We say we see the steamer. But what we 
see is her upper decks, masts and fluttering 
flags; the waving, smiling passengers — the 
life and action of her. 

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But there is far more to that steamer than 
this. There is her great body — the lower 
regions, the steerage, the hundreds of work- 
men, tons of cargo, massive machinery and 
powerful dynamos. 

The upper decks look important, but the 
thing that determines how far and how 
fast she travels, what she carries, and whether 
or not she ever reaches port, depend on the 
way the unseen forces work down there in her 
hull 53 33 

The outside of you that men see are your 
upper decks. People, and perhaps you your- 
self, imagine these are all there is to you. 

But it is only a fraction. The direction in 
which you go, what you do with your life, 
how far you travel and the port at which 
you arrive, all depend on the workings of the 
subconscious mind down there in your hull. 

That subconscious is not only nine-tenths 
of your mind but nine-tenths of you. It is 
far stronger than anything and everything 

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else within you, utterly fearless and unafraid. 
It possesses powers beyond your wildest 
dreams. When you put yourself in harmony 
with it, it will carry you surely and safely to 
your desired destination. 



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Like tides on a crescent sea beach 

When the moon is new and thin, 
Jo the lonely heart strange longings 

Come swelling and surging in; 
Come from the mystic ocean, 

Whose rim no foot has trod. 
Some of us call it Longing, 

But others call it God. 

— William Carruth. 



c&*£SS- 



Lesson I 



How Our Dreams Reveal Us 

The Secret of Every Dream 

SECRET lies 
back of every 
dream and every- 
thing that hap- 
pens in a dream. 
Though science 
has but recently 
discovered that se- 
cret this discovery 
is so far-reaching 
and fundamental 
:hat already it has cleared up some of the 
deepest mysteries of human personality, 
aided in the curing of all manner of physical 
diseases, mental disorders and heretofore in- 
explicable ailments. 

The new insight it has given into the 
psychology of every human being, and espe- 

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daily into his deepest desires, has revolution- 
ized the procedure of physicians, psychia- 
trists, psychologists and all whose work it is 
to help humanity straighten out its tangles. 
This startling but strikingly scientific 
secret of the origin and meaning of dreams 
is that every dream is the fulfilment of one 
or more wishes that have been thwarted in our 
waking life. 

Dreams Tell Desires 

<I In other words, everything you have or do 
or say or experience in a dream is the expres- 
sion of some desire, longing, craving, yearn- 
ing or wish which has been cheated of expres- 
sion or repressed during the daytime. 

One look into your own dreams will prove 
to you that this is true. You will recall how 
many times you have been doing in your 
dreams what actuality prevented your doing; 
how your dreams contain so many more of 
the desired elements than does real life, and 
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how much more intense are your dream 
experiences than those of reality. 

The poor who go to bed hungry or those 
who are dieting against their will, dream 
of feasts and banquets where there are 
quantities of just the food they like best. The 
man who retires thirsty dreams of cool springs, 
babbling brooks, steins of beer, goblets of 
wine, pitchers of ice water, or whatever kind 
of beverage he prefers. 

A young woman friend who homesteaded 
a "dry farm" in Montana, told us that 
over and over again when she was most 
longing for it she dreamed of finding a beau- 
tiful deep spring on her land. 

An intense repressed desire of any kind 
ultimately expresses itself in some form in 
our dreams. We dream of doing things we 
do not countenance in our waking thoughts 
but we dream them because, subconsciously, 
we desire to do the thing or the thing it 
symbolizes. 

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In many instances the conscious mind 
is not aware of this desire at all or, if it is, 
pushes it into the background for moral, 
ethical or other reasons. 

No one should be blamed or criticised for 
the evil or "immoral" things he does in 
dreams. The fact that he dreams of doing 
them proves that he does not do them in 
his waking life. 

Any desire that is fully gratified during 
the daytime is satisfied. It " gets out of the 
system." It is only those we are prevented 
from " getting off our chests " in the day 
that we dream of at night. 

Your Two Lives 

flf^You live two lives — outer and inner. The 
outer one consists of what you say and do f 
the inner of what you think and wish. 

The world witnesses much of your surface 
life and decides from it that you are a certain 
kind of person. But you know, with poignant 
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sadness, how little any one knows of the real 
you S& S& 

You have a thousand thoughts, desires, 
ambitions and longings no one has ever 
dreamed you possessed. You have some 
faults too that they would be rather sur- 
prised to see. But you have beautiful ideals, 
sympathies for the sufferings of others, many 
generous impulses and big hopes of helping 
humanity which no one suspects and which 
you feel no one would understand, regard- 
less of how hard you tried to explain them. 

The Parts You Play 

<I One of these lives is your surface life, the 
other your submerged life. Each has its own 
consciousness, its own experiences and oper- 
ates in its own way. 

"All the world's a stage/ ' said Shakespeare, 

and all of us are actors and play many roles. 

The tenth part of your mind which controls 

and handles your surface life is, as stated, 

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the conscious mind. It is at the helm during 
your waking hours. It directs the role you 
play in the many-act drama in which you 
appear day by day on the stage of your 
hourly existence. 

The part you play out here on the stage 
of this everyday conscious life is a part that 
has to conform to " appearances.' ' You say 
certain lines, you do certain things, you act 
a certain way because the exigencies of life, 
the amenities and the world in general 
demand it. 

These compel you to do a great many 
things you do not like to do under any 
conditions — in your social relationships, in 
your work, in your business, in your duties 
as a citizen, parent, friend, and as a mem- 
ber of society. 

The Surface You, accompanied by the 
conscious tenth of your mind, is forced to 
go through these parts all the time you are 
awake 33 33 

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Psychology of Dreams 

flf When you " lose consciousness,' ' out comes 
the other nine-tenths of your mind — the Sub- 
merged You — and takes charge of the stage. 

In a flash he clears away the trappings 
of that sordid, humdrum play called " every- 
day/ ' and instantly up goes the curtain on 
the perfect, the ideal, the longed-for dreams 
of " What I Want. M This is the dream and 
the " stuff M of which it is made. 

In it all is as you desire. You are the star 
of the caste, the envied, the influential, the 
handsome, the powerful, the all-important 
personage around which everything else 
revolves. Your real self, halted, hampered 
and hurt during the hours of consciousness 
is now strong and free and favored in these 
hours when only subconsciousness reigns. 

The Dream-Doings 

<I In your dreams you are always different 
from the person you are during the day. 

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Instead of being at the mercy of reality, as 
you are in your waking hours, you begin to 
play some role you want to play, to act a 
part you want to act, to be some person you 
want to be, regardless of how fantastical 
these desires may be. 

Primitive Nature of Dreams 

<I In the dream there are no laws, no rules, 
no regulations, no inhibitions. The dreamer 
harks back a million years, before any of 
these restraints came to repress and civilize 
the intense, instinctive self of man, to that 
ancient stage of human development when 
every creature was free to do as he pleased 
in just the degree that he was able to vanquish 
his enemies. 

This fact explains why we fight so hard 
in our dreams for what we desire and why 
the action is so much more crude than during 
our waking life. 

The conventional self which dominates 
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us during the day gives way, at night, to the 
primitive self which brooks no opposition, 
knows no defeat, has no scruples, no morals, 
no conventionalities — nothing but desires 
and their doings. 

We Dream in Pictures 

<I Because the dream takes us back to the 
ancient stages when the keenest sense man 
possessed was the visual one, our dreams 
are mostly purely visual experiences. 

The senses of hearing, touching, tasting 
and smelling, all of which figure prominently 
in our conscious life, are relegated to the 
rear in dreams because these were less acutely 
developed than sight in primitive man. 

Only those of the keenest auditory sense 
or gifted in music ever hear sounds in dreams. 
Only those whose gustatory senses are most 
highly developed ever taste things in dreams. 
Only those with the keenest of noses ever 
smell anything in a dream. Next in acuteness 
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to the sense of sight is that of touch, and 
this figures frequently in dreams. 

But for the most part we dream in mental 
pictures. The average dream is but a series 
of visual images — a moving picture in which 
we play the leading role which exists around 
and through and for our personal selves. 

Difficulties in Dreams 

^ In dreams the mind places obstacles in our 
pathway for the joy the ego experiences in 
demolishing them, and this is especially true 
of the dreams of Americans who, more than 
any other people, measure a man's success 
by the difficulties he has overcome. 

This conclusion is based in our analysis 
of hundreds of individuals from almost every 
civilized country. 

The Opera Star's Story 

<§ In California we recently conversed on this 
subject of the ego in dreams with an operatic 

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star whose name is famous the world over — so 
famous that she was at that time traveling 
incognito to avoid the homage of the multi- 
tude and have a few days of rest and quiet. 

She told us a dream she had had the night 
before. Here it is in her own words: 

11 1 was always intensely desirous of fame. 
Even as a child I knew I must be a great 
singer or life would not be worth living. I 
constantly pictured myself as a famous 
opera star — a silly performance for an un- 
attractive little girl whose parents were as 
poverty-stricken as mine. 

" As the eldest of a large family of children 
I was responsible for little brothers and 
sisters who were constantly getting into 
the kinds of troubles that demanded my 
attention 33 53 

" This often irritated me beyond endurance 

and made me more incensed than anything 

in the world except one. Our parents owned 

a small chicken farm, and when I was not 

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having to leave my day-dreams, fairy books 
and personal pursuits to care for babies I 
was being compelled to look after the chickens 
— see that they were let out occasionally but 
kept away from the garden. 

11 I hated herding those chickens with all 
the blind hate of childhood. I felt humiliated 
every time I had to look after them. Was 
that any business for a future star to be in? 
I used to think to myself. 

11 That was twenty-five years ago. 

" Last week I came to this little Inn and 
registered under another name without letting 
any one know who I was. No one suspected. 
The result was that I, who have been accus- 
tomed to homage and special attentions every- 
where, was treated like the Miss Average 
American I was supposed to be — no favors 
of any kind. In fact quite the opposite. 

" They gave me a North room when I had 
specified a Southern exposure; the girl at the 
news stand was flippant, a bell hop was 
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insolent, and all around I suffered from 
inferior service — the kind most everybody 
gets these days but which I have been spared 
for several years because wherever I went 
they knew who I was. 

11 1 suppose — in fact I admit — that all 
this irritated me. It humiliated and exasper- 
ated me. I could not get it off my mind. Had 
it not been for my intense desire to have a 
week of complete seclusion, I would have told 
them who I was at once. As it was I decided 
I would do so as I was leaving, just in time 
to get even with everybody. 

11 I went to sleep in that humiliated frame 
of mind and this is what I dreamed: 

" The flippant news stand girl, accom- 
panied by the bell boy who had been insolent, 
came to my door and told me to come down 
to the back yard. They rather ordered than 
invited me to come. I resented it but felt I 
must be as dignified as possible. 

" When we reached the back yard it looked 
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exactly like that back yard we had at home 
twenty-five years ago. 

" There was the one scrubby tree, the 
weeds and stones and general sordidness I 
remember so well as characterizing that rear 
lot of ours. 

" These two pointed out to me a large 
flock of chickens running loose, and told me 
that though it was their task to keep them 
out of the garden, they were going to a 
concert that afternoon and I must do it in 
their place. 

41 1 bitterly resented this, especially their 
thinking I was such a nonentity as that. But 
the final insult came just as they were leaving. 

44 'Here are the twins/ they said, handing 
me over two soiled, squalling, squirming 
babies. I did not seem able to resist nor put 
into words my unutterable fury at this pro- 
cedure, and before I could do anything they 
were gone. 

41 I had a very interesting book and sat 
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down to read, only to be incessantly inter- 
rupted by the babies' getting into a nearby 
ditch and the chickens picking at the lettuce. 

" For a while I tried to carry out my orders, 
then decided I would show them. When they 
returned the chickens had eaten up all the 
garden and the babies were wallowing in the 
water, completely covered with mud — their 
dresses hopelessly ruined. 

"They rushed in exclaiming that the con- 
cert was a great disappointment. The star 
had not appeared. 

" Then they spied the babies and the 
chickens and began to scold me. I let them 
say just enough to get themselves in deep. 

" Then I pointed to the Western sky which 
had by then darkened and in which the 
evening star was just visible. 

" There they saw — blazing across the firm- 
ament and illuminating the whole world — 
my name in letters of flame, millions of miles 
high! 53 33 

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" They gasped and exclaimed: 'Why, 
that 's the name of the star who did n't 
appear this afternoon/ Whereupon I ex- 
plained very modestly, ' Even a star can't 
be in two places simultaneously, and I was 
here you see/ 

" Then as the horror of the thing they 
had done came over them and they began to 
apologize, I haughtily lifted my skirts away 
from them and their muddy babies and 
sailed off, leaving them utterly crushed and 
bitterly bewailing the fact that they had 
missed this chance with the world-famous 
star they adored !" 

Explanation of Her Dream 

<I This dream is so obvious it scarcely re- 
quires explanation. Nevertheless it is interest- 
ing to note how true to form it runs and how 
it illustrates almost every phase and element 
of dreams 53 53 

To begin with, the opera star's dream has 
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the clarity, vividness and intensity which 
characterizes most of the dreams of success- 
ful people 33 33 

Any individual who is getting from every- 
day life so much satisfaction, fame and 
fortune as this illustrious woman, does not 
think in the double symbols which are 
forced upon the unsuccessful or disappointed. 

Things as they are being highly gratifying 
to her, this woman thinks in terms of things 
as they are, with little subterfuge, pretense, 
or symbolization. 

The star's ego had been wounded by the 
news stand girl and the bell hop, and she 
reasoned thus to herself, " They would treat 
me very differently and deferentially if they 
dreamed who I was." So in her dreams these 
two unappreciative people (whom she sup- 
poses know of and adore the person she 
really is and would give anything to associate 
with her personally) are reduced to utter 
humiliation, and she triumphs gloriously. 

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All the ignominy she permits herself to 
suffer tending the chickens and the twins is 
endured for the sole purpose of thoroughly 
humiliating those two people who snubbed 
her during the day. (You note how she 
did n't really tend the garden nor the babies 
very long, but got her revenge even before the 
parents returned, by letting the babies ruin 
their dresses and the chickens ruin thegarden) . 

In her dream she achieved complete revenge 
— even to the sailing off with her skirts held 
away from them as she would like to do in 
the hotel lobby. 

The babies and chicken-tending were old 
images stored away in her subconscious from 
childhood and used in this dream as symbol- 
izing the extreme humiliation which she felt 
when ignored and insulted by the girl and 
the bell hop. 

Her name, lighting up the entire sky in 
letters of fire, is the one mental image which 
above all others would symbolize fame in the 
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mind of one who had always been ambitious. 
The evening star was a very obvious symbol 
of herself, " the star," closely connected with 
the famous and shining name, blazing there 
in the firmament for all the world to see. 

This dream differs from the average dream 
in that it was exceedingly long, and at the 
same time coherent and integrated from 
beginning to end. 

There were no missing links, no disjointed 
parts. The entire experience was vivid, co- 
ordinated, with every part fitting into place 
like a mosaic into a pattern. 

" I often remember snatches of dreams/ ' 
she said, " and fleeting dream-experiences 
that do not appear to belong anywhere, but 
this one was as definite and dramatic as 
a play, with nothing extraneous, nothing 
isolated. It was more clear, in fact, than 
almost any actual experience I ever had." 

This latter fact is often true of our dreams 
and for two excellent reasons: 

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The first is that the dream is the product 
of the subconscious which constitutes nine- 
tenths of the mind and is nine times more 
powerful. 

The second is that in dreams our attention 
is not diverted by irrelevant or marginal 
things such as distract us during waking 
hours, but is concentrated exclusively on the 
dream. You will recall how in dreams you 
are never interrupted by other people's tak- 
ing the stage, and are never aware of any 
time, place or condition other than those 
of your dream. 

Dreams and Day Events 

<R " My dreams seem to be nothing but left- 
overs from the day's experiences" says many 
a one, and this at first glance seems to be the 
only tangible significance of most of our 
dreams 53 53 

But that there is a far deeper meaning you 
may see for yourself by noting that though 
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c a 

many a dream begins with some event of the 
day, it never sticks to the facts of the original 
occurrence but branches off into other 
directions, injecting all manner of new details 
which are in themselves irrelevant. 

In every instance you will note that the 
dream is built around a recent event which 
was in some way a disappointment to you. 
In the dream you go back and make changes 
to suit your subconscious self. 

You live over certain elements of the expe- 
rience, or live it over up to a certain point. 
From that point onward, instead of adhering 
to what actually happened the dream carries 
out what you wish had happened. 

Dreams That Mystify Us 

^ And now we come to one of the most 
interesting things about dreams — their sym- 
bolism S& 33 

As you have read this lesson, perhaps 
you have been thinking, " But how can my 

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dreams come from my desires? Why, I have 
often had dreams in which I did things I 
did n't like and experienced all manner of 
things I did n't desire." 

This apparently paradoxical condition 
delayed for many centuries science's unravel- 
ing of the real meaning of our dreams. 

Then a few years ago there was discoverea 
the most significant fact of all — that we 
dream not only in pictures, but that those 
pictures are full of symbols. 

In other words, the subconscious, which 
is in control of our dreams, is full of symbols, 
each of which represents, in the mind of the 
individual, something very definite. This 
symbol stands for this definite something 
because of its having been connected with 
some experience of the individual's life 
(usually in his childhood) in such a way as 
to fasten it into his subconscious mind. 

There are several reasons for this, the 
chief one being that the subconscious is not 
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a reasoning but a feeling, knowing mind. 
It simplifies all things, reduces them to 
their lowest common denominator. 

So when the individual passes through 
some especially vivid experience it is filed 
away in the memory — not as a detailed, 
minutely-recorded thing like a page of sta- 
tistics, but as a highly colored picture. 

In every case the picture will relate to 
whichever element was experienced at the 
moment of the highest pitch of emotion. 
This emotional element is what makes any 
experience vivid in memory. 

More will be explained concerning these 
pictures and their far-reaching effect upon 
the individual's life, in the next lesson, but 
for the present it is sufficient to know that 
your mind has automatically been filing away 
these symbols ever since you were born and 
that very early in life you acquired one for 
almost every kind of thought, feeling or group 
of thoughts and sensations you experienced. 
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Dreams, being almost exclusively in 
pictures staged by the subconscious, deal 
in wholesale fashion with these old mental 
pictures of ours. 

Your Mental " Morgue " 

<I The best illustration of how the subcon- 
scious mind utilizes old symbols in the mak- 
ing of new dreams is seen every day in the 
office of big city newspapers. 

Every newspaper has filed away, numbered 
and indexed, every picture it has printed in 
previous issues. This department is known fit- 
tingly, though uncannily, as " the morgue/ ' 

These pictures correspond to the pictures 
you unconsciously filed away in your sub- 
conscious as symbolizing your previous ex- 
periences. That your subconscious, like the 
newspaper office, files these away at the time 
and then forgets them till they are needed 
again, makes the analogy a perfect one. 

There are thousands of these old pictures. 
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photos, illustrations, cartoons and diagrams 
stowed away in the newspaper's " morgue/ ' 

The keeper of the morgue remembers only 
the merest fraction of them. But when 
a striking thing happens — when something 
" breaks," as the newspaper world says — 
the morgue is called upon for any pictures 
which can be utilized to illustrate the story 
in that day's issue. 

This accounts for the fact that you some- 
times see ancient photos,. with hats, coiffures 
and clothes that have been out of style for 
twenty years, used in connection with new 
stories 33 33 

The editor used these only for lack of newer 
ones. New pictures of private individuals 
are not easily secured by newspapers, just 
as new symbols are not easily acquired by 
your subconscious mind and, as the news- 
paper is compelled to use pictures (symbols) 
representing an individual as he appeared 
at some function or affair twenty or thirty 
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years ago, so the subconscious digs up and 
uses in our dreams old, old symbols which 
stand for experiences, thoughts and emotions 
which we experienced many years ago. 

Your conscious mind may be likened to 
the city editor who keeps in momentary 
touch with everything happening around him. 
Your subconscious acts and reacts precisely 
as does the keeper of the newspaper's picture 
gallery. It takes no more notice of what is 
passing in your immediate surroundings 
moment by moment than the morgue keeper 
takes of the news happening in the great city. 

That is n't his job. But when anything 
exciting or interesting, and especially when 
something highly dramatic or sensational, 
happens in your everyday life, either as a 
desire or an actual experience, the city editor 
of your conscious mind reports it to the 
keeper of your old subconscious picture 
gallery and he furnishes the illustrations 
for the picturesque edition that floats before 
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your mind in the form of dreams that night. 

Every dream gets its original impulse from 
some recent personal experience or desire 
which hinges on something that has just 
previously happened or been hoped for, as 
does every story or article printed in the 
daily paper. By ten o'clock in the morning 
the dreams of the night before are as out of 
date and forgotten as is the newspaper of 
the day before. 

The conscious mind is busy, just as is the 
city editor, with the problems of the present — 
getting ready to print a new edition. 

What the dream edition prints in your 
mind's eye that night will depend on which 
of the day's experiences have most intimately 
and emotionally affected the ego or your 
subconscious wishes. 

This accounts for the fact that we dream 

many dreams during each night, some related 

and some unrelated to each other. Though 

many people do not recall their dreams the 

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next day no one has yet been found who, 
when suddenly awakened, was not in the 
midst of some sort of dream. 

He may forget it an instant afterward, but 
he will have at least some slight realization 
on the instant of waking that he was having 
some kind of dream-sensation. 

Dreaming What You Do Not Want 

<I When you dream of having things or doing 
things you dislike or are indifferent to — 
that is, whenever the desire is not apparent 
in a dream, think back through your expe- 
riences and see if you can not recall what the 
dream-pictures symbolize in the back of your 
mind. For the following law operates in every 
dream 33 33 

Law of Symbols 

<I When a dream contains elements which 
are, so far as we know, undesired by the 
conscious mind these elements are symbolic 

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of something which is deeply desired either 
by the conscious or subconscious mind, and 
usually by both. 

Nightmares are merely dreams contain- 
ing desires whose symbols are not pleasant 
ones, and in which the action, which is also 
symbolic, becomes so intense it awakens 
the conscious mind from sleep. 

The Nurse's Dream 

<I A case illustrating the use of symbols in 
staging subconscious wishes in dreams came 
under our notice several years ago. 

A nurse of high standing in the city of 
San Francisco wished to have analyzed the 
following dream which had recurred until 
it had become an obsession: 

She said, " The hospital has an insufficient 
staff of nurses so I am busy all day and part 
of the night. This has continued for many 
months and I am getting so worn out phy- 
sically that unless I am able to free myself 
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of the distracting dream which often awakens 
me with its horror I shall have to resign. 

" Every time I fall asleep, if only for a 
moment, I have this dream: 

11 1 am standing at the foot of a bed in the 
ward, where of course I have witnessed many 
deaths. The white screen which we always 
place around a cot in the last moments looms 
up in this dream as clearly as it does in my 
waking hours. 

11 But instead of a stranger it is one of the 
former hospital doctors who lies there dying. 
I see his agony and the death struggle, his 
appeal to me to save him. 

11 But just as I try to do something the 
dream ends — soon to begin all over again." 

The full understanding of her dream so 
clarified the subconscious of this young 
woman that in four days it ceased to recur — 
a recovery much more rapid than is possible 
in most cases. 

Her frankness, sincerity and previous 
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6— J 

scientific training, added to the fact that 
the dream was easily analyzed according to 
symbols, made the cure a simple one. 

The Nurse's Dream Explained 

<& The death-bed had become, unconsciously, 
a very significant symbol in the nurse's mind 
— the symbol of something she deeply desired. 

She had, despite valiant efforts to the 
contrary, and despite the fact that she would 
not admit it to herself, fallen in love with 
one of the hospital physicians who was 
already married. 

Some months prior to her coming to us 
this physician had resigned from the hospital 
board and had moved to another city. The 
last time she had seen him was when they 
officiated jointly at a death-bed scene in the 
ward 33 33 

She had lived this last moment with him 
over so vividly, had recalled the emotions 
with which she had been torn at the time 
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(knowing, as she did, that he was leaving) 
that it became fixed in the subconscious as 
a symbol of his presence. 

Subconsciously she had longed to have 
the wife's place, to minister to him, endear 
herself to him and be able to do something 
very great for him — something that would 
make him care. 

To save man's life is the surest, quickest 
route into his gratitude and affection, so 
the subconscious devised this little drama. 

When she met her situation frankly and 
when she realized that the dream came from 
her own mind and was not, as she had feared, 
a premonition of the impending death of the 
doctor, the condition cleared immediately. 

The Speaker's Dream 

<I A dream composed entirely of symbols 
recurred to a woman on an average of two 
or three nights a week for over twenty-five 
years. She said: 



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" In this dream I am laboriously climb- 
ing over huge bowlders, deep ravines and 
tremendous crags in my efforts to reach the 
top of a high mountain whose sides are 
almost perpendicular. 

" Far down below — straight down below 
in the bottom of the canyon — there dashes 
over the rocks a mad, rushing, foaming 
river. I am constantly on the lookout to 
prevent myself from falling for I know I 
would be mangled to death long before I 
reached the bottom if I should lose my 
footing 33 33 

" Now the strange part of this is that I 
am never really frightened by this great 
height nor actually in danger of falling, for 
I am wearing thick-soled, heavy mountain 
shoes which enable me to secure a sure and 
solid footing. Though I can never climb as 
rapidly as I desire I am always making 
good progress. 

" Another strange thing in this dream 
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t * 

is that I always have one boon companion 
— William Jennings Bryan. He walks by my 
side, though he never takes hold of my hand 
nor offers to help me. But he is extremely cour- 
teous and we chat pleasantly and in the most 
simple friendly way as we climb upward. 

" A great many people are in our party, 
but Mr. Bryan and I seem to be finding the 
path by which they are to climb. Every 
little while we lean over the precipice and call 
down to them. They make headway and 
some of them climb very fast. These seem 
happy and exceedingly grateful to us for 
showing them the way and blazing the trail. 

" In this dream Mr. Bryan and I are 
very simply clothed — he in an old fashioned 
suit and I in a durable brown serge. Mr. 
Bryan carries in his right hand exactly six- 
teen different kinds of flowers — columbines, 
brown-eyed susans and other wild flowers- 
while my arms seem to be loaded with those 
dark red blooms called l Bleeding Hearts/ ' 
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c =a 

Explanation of the Dream 

<I This dream, so symbolical from beginning 
to end, is crystal-clear when the woman's 
supreme subconscious wish, plus her child- 
hood experiences, are made known. 

She had grown up in the wildest part of 
the Rocky Mountains, and mountains be- 
came to her the symbols of " the heights' ' 
to which her ambition pointed. This ambition 
was to be a great orator — an orator like 
Bryan, whom she had first heard of when 
he ran for President in 1896. Mr. Bryan 
became to her the symbol of her oratorical 
ambition 33 33 

Having lived all her life in the fastnesses 
of the mountains this young woman's 
symbols all bore the marks of her early 
environment. This accounted for the fact 
that though she was a woman of middle age 
when she told her dream and had for many 
years lived exclusively in great cities, the 
symbols in the dream had never changed. 
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Neither did the dream-elements alter so 
much as a hair's breadth, and the reason 
for this too is obvious. 

Her ambition, her supreme subconscious 
wish, had never changed. From her youth 
she had desired one thing above all others — 
to be a great speaker. And though she desired 
it so much that she became a well known 
lecturer, she still dreamed the dream because 
she had never reached the complete fulfil- 
ment of her ambition. 

She came, in years, to have audiences 
which filled the largest auditoriums, but she 
had other ambitions than speaking to great 
crowds, though this element was naturally 
always present in her desires. 

That Mr. Bryan carried sixteen kinds of 
flowers to one was amusingly symbolical 
of Bryan's first slogan, " Sixteen to One." 

The most significant symbol in this dream 
is that of the " Bleeding Heart' ' flowers 
that " loaded down her arms." 
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She grew up in poverty, and her youth 
was black with those hardships known only 
to pioneer and especially mountain pioneer 
regions 33 33 

At an early age she came to sympathize 
with all the poor and struggling because 
of her own struggles and poverty — and to 
think of their broken hearts in the terms of 
the " Bleeding Heart' ' flowers that grew on 
the mountains near her home. 

She longed to help these others who were 
poor and ambitious up the heights along 
with herself, and wanted to do it through 
oratory — the simple, sincere kind Bryan 
used. In all her dreams, even after she came 
to realize this ambition in great measure, 
she dreamed the same thing over and over 
because she was still struggling, still climb- 
ing, still trying to go higher and take more 
people 33 33 

Sometimes their burdens seemed to " load 
her down," as did the flowers they symbol- 

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ized, but always "they made progress" and 
always she was confident she would not fall 
into the canyon symbolizing Failure because 
she wore mountain shoes and planted her 
feet solidly on the ground. 

They were symbolic also of her certainty 
that she "stood on solid, scientific ground," 
that she had grounded herself in what she 
was teaching; that she had a good founda- 
tion for what she was doing. 

Her plain brown serge symbolized the sim- 
plicity which the woman had always held as 
an ideal 33 53 

This dream is more pleasant than other- 
wise — containing just enough of the struggle 
element to stimulate the courage and test 
the ambition — so she has never tried to be 
rid of it, and indeed is better for having her 
greatest ambitions and ideals run off in this 
dream-movie to keep her reminded that the 
top has not yet been reached. 

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If y° u can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt 
you, 

Yet make allowance for their doubting too; 
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, 

Or, being lied about, dont deal in lies. 
Or, being hated, dont give way to hating, 

And yet dont act too good nor talk too wise; 
If you can fill the unforgiving minute 

With sixty seconds worth of distance run, 
Yours is the Earth and everything that y s in it, 

And — what is more — you'll be a Man, my 
son! 

— Kipling. 



cfr*3SS>- 



Lesson II 



Your Emotional Niagara 

ONEYMOONERS, 
tourists, and pass- 
ers-by may see Ni- 
agara Falls as 
only a great spec- 
tacle. But to the 
engineer, the sci- 
entist and the 
man who stops to 
think, it is a great 
spectacle, plus S3 
He sees its mighty avalanche in the terms 
of power — the power that furnishes light and 
heat and driving energy for cities hundreds of 
miles in every direction — a torrent, swift, 
swirling and stupendous. Dashing over the 
precipice its gigantic force instantly annihi- 
lates everything before it, but with its energy 
harnessed in electricity by the mind of man 
it becomes a powerful constructive current. 

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Your Own Niagara 

<I Within every individual there is a seeth- 
ing current of feelings, impulses, instincts — 
his emotional Niagara. 

It is primal, elemental, overwhelming. If 
uncontrolled it will handicap, cripple or com- 
pletely destroy him — according to the type 
and temperament of the individual. 

In some types the emotions are for the 
most part like a wide Mississippi. Such are 
the unruffled people. In other and very 
methodical types the current is apparently 
measured out with the precision of an irri- 
gation system, while in others it is a rapid 
mountain brook with its current never still 
and never put to any constructive use. 

If we waste our emotional energy on non- 
essentials we are like the brook that babbles 
and bubbles without doing anything for 
itself and evaporates, till at the end of its 
life journey it is nothing but a trickle, finan- 
cially and otherwise. 

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If, for any reason, we have little emotional 
energy and open the headgates only enough 
to do this little thing and that, in method- 
ical routine, our conserving will do but little 
good 33 33 

Emotion and Success 

<I You have seen men and women who took 
the same street car at the same corner at the 
same moment every morning for years. This 
is the conserving type — and it conserves 
everything, from food to feelings. 

Such a man is never late at the office. He 
never misses a day, he never leaves five 
minutes early. But he never goes to the top. 
He lacks emotional energy — that great power 
which in men corresponds to horsepower, 
and should be called human power. 

His human power is always under control, 

chiefly because there is so little of it. He 

measures it out as a New England grocer 

measures out sugar — two grains at a time! 

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These people run their lives like train 
schedules and are about as impersonal. 

At the next desk there is a man not half 
so faithful, not a tenth so careful. He is late 
occasionally, has a day off now and then and 
instead of doing his work like a machine, 
slows down some days and races like mad 
others. But he is the one who gets invited 
to the social affairs at the boss's house and 
when a promotion is being passed around 
he is the man who gets it! He is full of human 
power. Half organized, he can go farther and 
faster and accomplish more for the heads of 
that business than the emotionless man. 

Control Your Current 

<I But if the emotional man forgets to con- 
trol his torrent; if the powerhouse of reason 
is closed up so often that the force of the 
Niagara is not transmuted into electricity 
for running the main plant — his life — he 
can and will wind up a failure. 
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The most desirable human possession in 
the world is emotion. Without it, man is 
colorless, bloodless, lifeless. He can neither 
experience a great enthusiasm nor kindle 
it in others. 

But it must be controlled by his mind, 
and its power turned into constructive 
channels if he would be happy and successful. 

Psychology of Emotion 

flf Emotional energy may be likened to an 
electrical current in other ways. It is some- 
times decreased, as when we are asleep. 

For the most part we are not made con- 
scious of it because it is expended as fast as 
generated — used up in the activities of 
every day. 

But there are other times when we are con- 
scious of intense feeling — when something 
pleasant or unpleasant has happened which 
generated, sometimes instantaneously, an 
excess of this current. 

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Do You Repress or Express ? 

<I Whenever this happens you do one of two 
things. You can not turn the current back 
to nothingness. It is there. It is intensely 
alive. You either express it or repress it. 

If you express it you are immediately 
relieved. This explains why the types that 
have the most fiery tempers forgive quickest. 
They get it " out of their systems.' ' 

It also explains why those that say noth- 
ing when angry nurse their grudges. The 
people who tell you what they think when 
offended are never pernicious. Those who 
hide their feelings usually seek revenge later, 
sometimes long after you have forgotten the 
incident. They have " saved up," stored 
away their emotion, awaiting an opportunity. 

Corking Your Bottles 

<I Keep the cork out of a bottle (which is 
what the outspoken type is doing) and there 
is little danger; put the cork in and it fer- 

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ments. Keep the lid off the kettle and the 
boiling will do no harm. But keep it on tight 
and there will be an explosion in some 
direction S3 53 

If the emotion you feel is one which can 
not be expressed freely and fully in the way 
it craves; if for any reason you are compelled 
to push this violent feeling into the back- 
ground, you may imagine you have short- 
circuited it, but Mental Analysis proves 
that such is not the case. You have only 
stored the current. 

A switching of the current to something 
else, through which it can be fully and freely 
expended, is the only solution in this case. 

Cause of Emotion 

<I Every emotion is the combustion that 
ensues when something has happened which 
set fire to instinct. 

Each of your instincts is a pile of tinder, 
laid ready for lighting, and handed down 
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to you from remote ancestors. These bundles 
of tinder " catch fire" easily. They are always 
ready to blaze up. 

Some of them flame out early in life. The 
instinct of assimilation burns in the new 
born babe. It is hungry. There is no thought 
behind its cry for food — nothing but blind 
instinct S3 S3 

Other instinctive fires are lighted later on 
— the sex instinct at adolescence and higher 
ones as we proceed through life. We become 
more reasonable as we grow older because 
reason is given more and more ascendancy 
as the fires of instinct die down. 

But all emotions are the temporary flaring 
up of the instinct fires. The expression " he 
got into a heated argument," is not an 
accidental phrase. 

Neither is it accidental that we say " he 
is a cold nature." Such people are never as 
emotional as the ones we call ' ' warm natures. ' ' 

If you can imagine for a moment that 
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though you are a human being, you are full 
of little banked fires called instincts which 
are fanned into flame by certain things, you 
will never again wonder why it is that you 
become heated literally as well as figur- 
atively when gripped by emotion. 

Two Kinds of Emotion 

<R Emotions are of two kinds — pleasurable 
and painful. 

When something occurs to arouse an 
instinct you do one of two things, as referred 
to above — repress or express. If you gratify 
the instinct, the accompanying emotion will 
be pleasurable. If you thwart it the accom- 
panying emotion will be painful. 

Thus, when you become hungry your 
instinct of assimilation is active. If, when 
thoroughly aroused, you can sit down to a 
delicious meal, the emotion is a pleasant one. 
But if prevented from eating the emotion 
generated will be a painful one. 
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Two Kinds of Instincts 

<I Society, as we all know, is organized 
against the free and full expression of certain 
instincts S3 53 

Laws, rules and social customs exist for the 
purpose of regulating the expression of cer- 
tain primitive ones which have come down to 
us from such remote ages that they are habit- 
ually and easily aroused; and for the reward- 
ing of certain other and higher instincts 
which are so recent in us that they must 
needs be constantly encouraged and upheld 
to be kept growing. 

Thus we see society praising generosity — 
an expression of the recent instinct of 
altruism — and punishing profiteering which 
is an expression of the remote and primitive 
instinct of greed. 

It rewards the courageous and ostracizes 
the coward because his cowardice is the 
expression of the ancient instinct, Fear. 

It teaches the young to emulate the example 
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of the ambitious, the idealistic, the fas- 
tidious, though ambition, idealism, and 
fastidiousness are instincts, too. But they 
are high instincts and make for the good 
of society as a whole. 

Society knows this and safeguards itself 
so far as it is able. By exacting penalties of 
various kinds (according to the destructive- 
ness of the instinct involved in each case), 
it compels more repression of the lower and 
additional expression of the higher. 

This is necessary and right, and will event- 
ually lead to the elimination of the worst 
and a development of the best in man. 

What It Does To Us 

1^ But meanwhile this does not alter the 
fact that present-day man, possessed as he 
is of powerful primitive instincts, finds it 
very difficult to adapt himself to civilization's 
code S& 33 

Something is always occurring to strike 
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the match to an instinct and unless it happens 
to be one which society favors he either 
expresses it (in which case he risks society's 
penalty) , or he suppresses it (in which case he 
pays a personal penalty in some form,depend- 
ing upon his own type and the intensity of 
the urge) . 

Neither of these is desirable. Therefore, 
it is imperative that the fire of every emotion 
be permited to burn out, but that instead 
of being allowed to destroy should be put to 
constructive use. 

Psychology of Sublimation 

^f Suppose there is a bonfire in your back 
yard. If you throw water on it, it may smoul- 
der and break out later. If you allow it to go 
unchecked it will endanger not only your 
own house but the homes of your neighbors 
and perhaps the entire community in which 
you live S3 33 

There is but one thing to do. You must 
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control that fire and give it something con- 
structive to use its force upon. 

In your house there are a number of things 
you have planned to cook. Bring them out, 
put them over the blaze and let it be doing 
something worth while with its heat-energy. 
Then when it has burned itself out you have 
done something constructive instead of 
destructive; you have hurt no one, accom- 
plished something for the betterment of your 
own affairs and perhaps in the doing prepared 
extra food for the hungry. This would be 
sublimation 33 33 

Some types find it very difficult to subli- 
mate and others do it almost automatically 
all their lives. Extremely bony people, 
extreme brunets and those with extremely 
incurving profiles find sublimation most 
difficult, but are the very ones who need it 
most, for they are people of intense feel- 
ings. When their feelings are destructive they 
either wreck things in their expression or 
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repress them so deeply they sometimes wreck 
the individual himself. 

These people are the extremists who either 
bury an emotion completely or defy the 
universe 33 33 

You will recall that the individuals with 
these characteristics either stay entirely away 
from a thing or go into it with a faithfulness 
that is unending. 

Instincts and Individuality 

<I The keynote of a man's nature which we 
sometimes speak of as his individuality is 
largely determined by' his predominant 
instincts 33 33 

These instincts are outlined in the externals 
of that individual. Every general kind of 
inner impulse which is common to the human 
race has outer gateways through which it 
travels to reach the world and which are 
indicative of the amount and intensity of that 
particular urge in the individual's makeup. 
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Instincts and Emotions 

<I Every individual becomes emotional most 
quickly and most intensely over the things 
which concern his predominant instincts. 

Thus it is that the thing which arouses one 
man to furious anger leaves another unstirred 
and still another only mildly resentful. 

Each is reacting according to the amount 
and intensity of his pugnacity instinct, a 
characteristic which shows plainly in his jaw. 

Look about amongst your acquaintances 
and you will see that the references made 
herein are corroborated in every one of them. 

Whether man or woman, the one who is 
constantly quarreling, " having it out" with 
people, is an individual with a longer, wider 
or more protruding jaw than the average. 
The most noted American example of this 
was Theodore Roosevelt. 

The person who does not become angry 
until something important or constantly 
repeated arises, has a jaw that is not 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 

extreme in any direction, while the one who 
lets everybody step on him and never shows 
anger has either a very receding jaw, a very 
incurving mouth or fat features. 

Effect of Expressing Emotion 

<R The immediate effect of completely express- 
ing an emotion is a feeling of satisfaction. 
This is true regardless of whether the instinct 
is destructive or constructive, recent or remote 
and also regardless of the type of the indi- 
vidual 33 33 

But if the instinct is a destructive one and 
the individual a man predominantly of high 
instincts — that is, if he is highly evolved, 
idealistic or thoroughly civilized — this feel- 
ing of satisfaction will soon give way to one 
of regret, self-criticism or, in extreme cases, 
remorse 33 33 

If he is low-grade evolutionally — if he is a 
man most of whose instincts are primitive 
and remote — this feeling of satisfaction will 

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last for a long period and the action, no 
matter how unsocial, may never be regretted. 

If You Are a Regretter 

<I If you are one of those who are constantly 
making certain kinds of mistakes and con- 
stantly being torn with regret for having 
made them, remember this: you are domi- 
nated too often by some primitive instinct;, 
but the great majority of your instincts are 
high grade or you would not have the 
regrets S3 S3 

Such a man can always learn. He can 
adapt himself, improve himself, and if you 
half try you can overcome your weaknesses. 
But the remorse you have had, the twinges 
of conscience you have suffered are certain 
proof that you have high grade ore in you 
to a greater extent than the average person. 

Let this fact sink in, then make up your 
mind not to spend any more time blaming, 
criticising, despising or loathing yourself, for 
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these mental attitudes are fatal to work and 
happiness 33 33 

You have done enough of that for a hun- 
dred lifetimes. Hereafter use all your energy 
self-confidently, apply it to constructive 
things. From this time on never waste 
another moment in remorse no matter what 
you have done. 

When you make mistakes the next time 
don't become depressed. You can indulge in 
a little healthy disgust if you must, but 
never discouragement. Remind yourself that 
every person in the world who ever made 
anything worth while, made many grave 
errors and committed many sins. 

The difference between great minds and 
the rest of mankind was not that the great 
ones did not make mistakes but that they 
refused to be crushed by them, got up, shook 
the dusk off their minds and proceeded to 
make up for it by doing something con- 
structive 33 33 

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You must do the same, or the future will 
find you more and more unhappy. Unhappi- 
ness leads to more sin, wrong and crime than 
anything else in the world, but happiness 
is a powerful aid to goodness. 

The Business Man's Story 

<I A man came under our observation several 
years ago whose health had become under- 
mined. Metabolism tests proved that no spe- 
cific thing was organically wrong but showed 
almost every organ functioning subnormally. 

He had once been a man of means, with a 
good business, but had lost it several years 
before. Since that time he had gradually gone 
down financially, physically and mentally, 
till his friends could scarcely recognize in him 
the person they had once known. 

Yet he had no bad habits, his system was 
organically strong and mechanically perfect. 
So far as could be determined there was noth- 
ing to account for his disintegration. 
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His home life had been ideal and his wife 
was devotion itself. He loved her dearly and 
took pleasure in the achievements of their 
two girls who were talented musicians. 

He could shed no light on the matter, 
either for his physicians or for us. He ate well 
and slept well. But he had lost all interest 
in living and refrained from committing 
suicide only out of consideration for his 
family 53 33 

An analysis showed that the trouble had 
started during a period when he began to 
despise himself for having done what was, to 
his high sense of honor, a contemptible thing. 
Thousands of others would have had no more 
than a momentary regret, if any, but this 
self-loathing ate its way into his mind till it 
consumed him. 

He had been sent as a delegate from his 
district to a convention, but owing to the 
illness of one of their daughters his wife could 
not accompany him. 

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On the train he met a very charming 
woman whom he had known very slightly 
in his youth, and who had become so success- 
ful a business woman herself that she also 
was a delegate to the convention. 

It happened that they stopped at the same 
hotel and, entirely without prearrangement, 
ran into each other constantly during the 
convention. As each was there alone they ate 
most of their meals together and, by the time 
the convention neared its close, he had 
become decidedly though not deeply attached 
to her 53 S3 

He was not a talkative man, but during 
their last day on the train and in response to 
an inexplicable impulse in the midst of a 
champagne supper on the diner, he told her 
the details of a highly dramatic but regret- 
table episode in the girlhood of his wife. 

Her sin had never been found out, and 
she had atoned for it by a life of goodness and 
gentleness. She had confessed it to him fully 
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and he had not only forgiven her but for- 
gotten it now these many years. 

An hour after his arrival home he would 
have given ten thousand dollars to have the 
story back. At first he lived in the fear 
that the woman might relate the story, but 
when her death a month afterward precluded 
this his regret at having told her was not 
lessened 33 S3 

In his own estimation, his conduct had 
been all the more unpardonable and unfor- 
gettable because he was by nature a man of 
extreme reticence and unusual refinement. 
His regret became remorse. He could not 
look at his wife nor hear her voice on the 
telephone without being reminded of what 
he had done. 

The incident repeated itself in his mind 
all day and in his dreams all night. He con- 
sidered himself beneath contempt. He grew 
to despise himself. He secretly called himself 
" rotten to the core " and, as he expressed it, 
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" a man without character, devoid of all 
manhood/ ' 

This so wore on him that nothing seemed 
of any importance in comparison. He had 
always prided himself on his character and 
now felt he had none. The result was inevi- 
table to one of his sensitive temperament. 

He soon began to lose his grip on business. 
This made it increasingly difficult for him 
to give his wife and daughters the things 
they desired and this in turn increased the 
self-contempt which was causing the trouble. 

Being a business man and a rather ultra- 
practical one at that, he had never con- 
ceived of the idea that his mental condition 
was in any way responsible for his physical 
and financial ones. But he at last sought 
advice 53 53 

When told that the strange situation 
could have had none other than a mental 
foundation he recalled the sufferings just 
related 53 53 

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c =a 

Upon being shown that his remorse, which 
had become a prolonged, painful emotion, 
was not only the cause of his disintegration 
but the proof that he was by nature a man 
of the highest impulses, he began to get well, 
and is today a bigger, better business man 
than he was before. 

The Stenographer's Story 

flf To be forced to do things calling for 
extreme development of some instinct which 
in that individual is underdeveloped, causes 
almost as much emotional stress as the 
thwarting of overdeveloped instincts. 

A case clearly illustrating this came to 
our notice in a Western city some years ago. 

An ambitious young woman had risen to 
a very responsible position for one of her 
youth — private secretary to the president 
of a large importing house. But she became 
so ill-tempered that her employer finally 
told her she could have a month in which to 

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redeem herself, at the end of which time she 
must leave unless her disposition had 
improved 33 33 

She was especially chagrined at this for 
she had only a few months before been pro- 
moted to the position after years of keeping 
her eye on it as her goal. 

She adapted herself easily to all the duties 
save one: The president insisted that the new 
secretary take his dictation herself. 

She had done little stenography in her 
previous position, but was in practice and 
got out the letters in expert fashion. But after 
each dictation period she was so emotional 
that the merest trifles caused her to cry or 
scold or laugh hilariously. 

When she came to us she was on the verge 
of a nervous breakdown, due to the suppres- 
sion of one instinct, and to the demand for 
another which in her was but little developed. 

The overdeveloped instinct was that of 
approbation. She demanded constant praise, 

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and had always received much of it from 
previous employers. The president was not 
given to compliments and no matter how 
excellent her work, never told her it was so nor 
seemed to be aware that she was a remarkably 
competent secretary. 

She was also very pretty and this was the 
first employer who had not, in some nice, 
indirect way, taken notice of this fact. 

In addition to this, he dictated much more 
rapidly than she had been accustomed to and 
though she got every word and punctuated 
correctly, it was at the cost of intense effort, 
because she had very little of the instinct of 
manipulation upon which easy hand work 
depends 33 33 

Fat Men's Emotions 

<& You are well acquainted with the fat man 
who never loses his temper save when his 
meals are interfered with. 

His emotions are painful or pleasurable 

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in accordance with the degree in which his 
stomach is satisfied. Such a man becomes as 
enthusiastic over good food as other types do 
over good music, good books, good ball 
games or good business deals. In this man 
the instinct of assimilation is paramount. 

Inertia and Indolence 

<I An intellectual and charming woman of 
thirty-five, who had taught in Columbia 
for several years, decided to put her knowl- 
edge to a wider use and one which would 
bring her better financial returns. 

She entered into a partnership with another 
college woman and they were very successful. 

The other woman was full of common 
sense and practicality as well as learning. 
She was, moreover, a bundle of energy. She 
loved the work and never tired of it — 
retiring at one in the morning and arising 
at six more refreshed than the other who 
usually retired several hours earlier. 
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Though their work was but a few hours 
in duration it began at eight o'clock each 
morning. The first woman was always late. 

She could not bring herself to get out of 
bed, and must take a warm bath in which 
she lay relaxed for twenty minutes before 
bringing herself to dress, and became very 
angry if warned to hasten. 

She finally returned to the teaching where 
her working hours were in the middle of the 
day 33 33 

When relating the experience after study- 
ing Mental Analysis she said, " I used to 
become so furious with my partner when 
she urged me to get up early, hasten through 
my bath or sit up after ten o'clock that I was 
ill afterward. I had never been compelled to 
hurry or rise earlier than eight, and my half 
hour of relaxation in the bath was as much 
a part of my day's schedule as meals, and 
much more necessary to my peace of mind. 

" I blamed myself for losing my temper, 
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especially as she was right and our success 
depended upon my being prompt, but that 
did n't help matters. I know why now. The 
instinct of inertia is overdeveloped in me. I 
can work long and hard once I am up and 
out, but I demand frequent periods of 
complete relaxation, lots of sleep and to 
begin the day with that feeling of utter com- 
fort which nothing but a warm bath gives.' ' 

The Wife's Story 

<I A wife found that she was losing her hus- 
band because of her frequent emotional 
explosions. She made all manner of sacrifices 
for him — loved him devotedly, and permitted 
him to impose on her in numberless ways. 
But when he dropped cigar-ash on the carpet, 
left his newspapers strewn over things, threw 
his towels in a wad on the bathroom floor, 
or failed to hang up his clothes, she flew into 
a rage. She could not explain it. 

That the emotion was out of all proportion 
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to the importance of the thing itself, she well 
knew. What she did not know was that the 
home-keeping instinct * which man shares 
with all birds, beavers and nest-building 
creatures was overdeveloped in her. 

Her one desire in life was to keep her home 
nest in apple-pie order. She had married a 
man who had so little of this instinct that 
her ill temper on these occasions seemed to 
him nothing short of insanity. She gradually 
learned to use that emotional current to tidy 
up the house that much sooner, instead of 
expending it on her husband. 

The Mother's Story 

<R ' l What shall I do about my boy? ' ' a mother 
said. " I try so hard to please him. I cook 
only the food he likes; I wait upon him and 
adapt myself and the household to his wishes. 
But he seems to hate me." 

The boy admited all this and his shame 
at the treatment he gave his mother, but 
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said she unknowingly did one thing which 
so irritated him that he was actually growing 
to hate her. 

" She is always afraid — afraid of the future 
for me and for herself. She is afraid we may 
get ill; afraid she is getting a cold; afraid that 
it is going to storm; afraid that something 
will happen to one or both of us. 

" Now I am afraid too, but I am trying 
to keep my fear to myself, to forget it and 
outgrow it. But she waves it in front of 
me all the time and I can't forget. I am not 
naturally self-confident. I suppose I get this 
fear-attitude from her. I am sorry she suffers 
from it, for I suffer too. But her insistence on 
holding every kind of catastrophe before my 
imagination enrages me more and more." 

The mother, when told what ailed her son, 
was completely taken back. She had " only 
done it for his good," — to warn him and 
induce him to be prepared for the exigencies 
of life. A little lesson on how to cure worry 
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C =5 

changed her and the son and the household 
in a month's time. 

Higher Emotions 

<& But not all emotions are inimical ones. 
Those of love, patriotism and religion show 
how an emotion can stimulate and purify 
the personality. 

Sympathy, forgiveness, generosity and all 
forms of humanitarianism are good emotions 
which lift us far out of our small selves, and 
give us the joy of being all human for hours 
or days at a time. 

Every kind word, every courageous deed, 
every act of voluntary self-sacrifice, is full of 
emotion. Every pioneer, every trail-blazer in 
any line of endeavor goes on and on in the 
face of difficulties which seem overwhelming 
to other men, because he is sustained by an 
emotion they do not feel. 

The mother gives of herself, her love, ser- 
vice, toil and life itself, all for the emotion 
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of mother love. The father works long hours 
at uncongenial tasks, not actually for the 
boss but for the wife and babies at home. 

Knowing Yourself Better 

<I The first step in conquering destructive 
emotions and encouraging constructive ones 
is to study yourself. 

Begin to think of yourself as you are and as 
you know you are, without whimpers or 
pretences. But don't let anything in your 
nature cause you to give up. Look it square 
in the eye and half the trouble is over. 

We handicap ourselves by putting on the 
blinders of self-evasion. We refuse to be frank 
with ourselves. We subconsciously know we 
are full of faults but we exaggerate some and 
ignore others. 

Some of the emotions you possess could, 

if capitalized, make you a real success in life. 

But you have not thought of emotion as 

having any such power. The world has not 

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recognized it until very recently. History and 
biography dwell on the less significant 
elements of its great men and women, for- 
getting or leaving to the poets the emotional 
qualities which are at the foundation of every 
famous name S3 S3 

Don't Be Supersensitive 

<I The opposite extreme are those who 
imagine emotionalism alone is something 
to be proud of. Such people pride themselves 
on their sensitiveness, their "high strung" 
natures — forgetting that only as we direct 
our emotions into worth-while channels for 
accomplishment, for the good of ourselves 
and our fellows, can strong emotions become 
an asset 33 53 

Every organism, to live, must be sensitive 
to the stimuli in its environment. But if it 
is too sensitive it will forever be in the busi- 
ness of dressing its wounds and have time 
for little else. 

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Supersensitive people are like the little 
flowers called " sensitive plants" which curl 
up at the merest touch. They are always 
looking at their feelings with a microscope. 
Others are just as emotional but spend their 
feelings outward and upward like a sunflower 
that is so enthusiastic about the sun it turns 
its face from East to West each day to keep 
looking at it. 

Use Your Emotions 

^ Your character is the result of your conduct. 
Your conduct is the outward expression of 
your inner emotions. If you desire a strong 
and beautiful character you must learn to 
use your emotions toward building the things 
you want to come true in your life. 

Though it is not an easy thing to believe, 
it is nevertheless true that we can apply our 
emotions to good ends. We can turn their 
current into positive channels where it 
will, like the torrent of Niagara, furnish 
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power for doing many big things we can not 
do by reason alone. 

Whenever you have a destructive emotion 
don't swallow it and try to forget it. Don't 
hate or love a thing, desire to do or crave not 
to do a thing, and sit still. Get up while the 
mood is on and do something you have been 
neglecting 53 53 

One of the ablest men I have ever known 
told me he had mastered three languages by 
carrying a little grammer in his pocket and 
studying it while waiting for his wife in the 
hall, on the street corner or wherever he had 
an engagement to meet her. 

11 The first five years after we were married 
I, who am a naturally prompt person myself, 
was so incensed at her unvarying tardiness 
it threatened to wreck our marriage. She 
could never understand my ravings. Each 
time she felt she had been unavoidably 
detained. I was ill sometimes for days after 
one of these explosions. 

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11 When I realized I could never change 
her I hit upon this idea of improving the 
time. This was my wife's one serious fault. 
We have been ideally happy for thirty years 
since — in which time I have not only learned 
these new languages but read and digested 
much of the world's best literature. " 

This is but one of thousands of possible 
ways in which an emotion and a period of 
precious time, which would otherwise be used 
to tear down, can be made to build up. 

Choose Your Emotions 

<& Just as surely as you can use your emotions 
after they are aroused you can prevent the 
wrong ones being aroused most of the time, 
by learning, as you will in the last lesson of 
this course, how to gain conscious control 
of the attitudes which bring forth your 
habitual emotions. 

It is these habitual explosions that en- 
danger our happiness. They can be made 

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constructive instead of destructive by 
changing our predominant mental attitudes 
from negative to positive — an accomplish- 
ment perfectly possible to any person of 
average intelligence. 



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Fear is the twin of Faith's sworn foe, 

Distrust. 
If one breaks in your heart the other must. 

Fear is the open enemy of Good. 

It means the God in man misunderstood. 

Who walks with Fear adown life's road 

will meet 
His boon companions, Failure and Defeat. 

But look the bully boldly in the eyes 
With mien undaunted, and he turns and 
flies. 



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Lesson III 



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Dissolving Our Fixed Fears 

N the back of his 
mind, each indi- 
vidual has a mass 
of fixed preferences 
and prejudices. 

The fundamen- 
tal predilections of 
his nature are due 
to his type and are 
held in common 
_ with all others of 
that type. Their origin is biological, as has 
been fully treated in our course, "The Five 
Human Types/ ' 

But in addition to these, and alongside 
of them, there are myriads of little attitudes 
peculiar and personal to each and every indi- 
vidual and which come from his training, his 
education, his environment and his experi- 
ence si 53 

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Beans and Apples 

<I To realize the difference between the bio- 
logical foundations of your nature — the 
things that make you in the by-and-large — 
and the hundreds of inclinations and indis- 
positions which are privately and personally 
" your own make," you might visualize a 
half bushel basket full of apples. These are 
your type traits. They make up your fund- 
amentals. 

But after the basket is as full of apples as 
it will hold you can pour into the chinks a 
very large amount of navy beans. These are 
akin to the personal peculiarities which "fill 
in " the main outline called You. 

In every individual over five years of age 
there are literally thousands of these minia- 
ture but mighty eccentricities which help or 
hinder us. They vary as widely and exist as 
universally as the human beings who possess 
them — which helps to account for the fact that 
no two people in the world are exactly alike. 
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Where They Come From 

^ The average man, though he possesses — 
and is only too often possessed by — these 
automatic attitudes, seldom realizes their 
existence in his subconscious, much less con- 
ceives of their causes. He often imagines he 
makes his decisions volitionally, when his 
friends have long since learned that under 
certaiA-ircumst^nces he is sure to react a 
certaiflway. 

He always gives reasons and he is perfectly 
sincere in imagining these reasons are the real 
foundation of his decisions. 

But a mass of complicated machinery run 
by very definite psychological and physi- 
ological forces, of which he is entirely uncon- 
scious, really works out the reaction he gives 
to almost every situation. 

He knows little or nothing about psy- 
chology and so neither sees his mental wheels 
go round nor even dreams of the vast plant 
in which they operate. 

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Origin of Fixed Feelings 

<J As before explained, we get the main fun- 
damentals of our natures — the outlines — 
from our biological type. But the dents, fan- 
cies, faiths and fears are impressed on us by 
environment. 

There are three kinds of fixed feelings — 
fixed fears, fixed faiths and fixed fancies. 

Every fixed fear comes from an experience 
which produced so painful an emotion that the 
memory sank deep into the subconscious mind. 

The reason we are so often unconscious 
of the origin of these fixed feelings is, as stated 
earlier, that the conscious mind deals in 
thoughts but the subconscious in feelings; and 
because they usually arise from experiences 
which occurred in childhood before the con- 
scious mind was developed. But the sub- 
conscious, being thoroughly alive even in 
babyhood, remembers the emotion while the 
conscious one forgets the cause. 

The more intense any feeling (emotion) 
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the more does the conscious mind tend to 
forget it. This is true for two very interesting 
reasons. 

The first is, that since we can not think 
deeply and feel deeply at the same moment, 
any intense emotion (feeling) temporarily 
dethrones the conscious thinking mind and 
thus prevents its having a very clear conscious 
memory of what happens. 

(You will note how little you can recall 
of the things you did or said during excite- 
ment or any intense emotion). 

The subconscious (which never forgets 
anything and especially never forgets an 
emotion), is deeply concerned with every 
emotional experience. Every intensely emo- 
tional experience makes an impression so 
deep that its permanent mark is left on the 
subconscious. Secondly, to be reminded of 
any deep emotion so interferes with the work 
of the conscious mind that it is automatically 
on the defensive. 

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Psychology of Fixed Fears 

<I When an emotion is extremely painful 
a scar is left which is easily irritated ever 
after by anything which reminds the sub- 
conscious of the original pain. 

We so often have revulsions of feeling 
against people and things without in the 
least knowing why. Whenever this happens 
it is because the person or thing which you 
automatically dislike — while doubtless 
innocent in itself — bears a resemblance to 
the symbol by which the old painful experi- 
ence was recorded in the subconscious. 

The subconscious, as you will recall, does 
not deal in thoughts nor details but reduces 
everything to simple symbols which ever 
afterward stand for the original. 

Why You Dislike People 

<J When, for instance, you take an instan- 
taneous dislike to an individual, even before 
you have spoken to him, it is because he 
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brings up the symbol of some past painful 
emotional experience. 

The way he combs his hair, or the tilt of 
his ear, may bring up the old ugly picture 
subconsciously. You may never have noticed 
that the person you disliked combed his 
hair that way and you may not be consciously 
aware now that the present man does, but 
the subconscious noted it in the first man 
and is reminded of it by the second. 

Foolish as all this seems to practical every- 
day souls, it is invariably the real reason. 
The conscious mind is not so impressionable 
but remember, the conscious mind reasons 
whereas the subconscious feels — and that, 
blindly 33 3$ 

This illustration holds good only concern- 
ing people whom you dislike instantaneously. 

Laws of Our Personal Dislikes 

<I The following little rules will clarify the 
reasons for your likes and dislikes of people. 

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MENTAL ANALYSIS 

When you dislike a stranger instantane- 
ously and before he has spoken, it is because 
something about him reminds you of the 
symbol of a painful experience. 

When you dislike a stranger after the first 
five minutes of conversation with him it is 
because of his personality. 

When you dislike him after long acquain- 
tance it is because his type conflicts with yours. 

Psychology of Fixed Faiths 

^ Faith is the opposite of fear. It operates in 
exactly the opposite manner on the mind, 
body and spirit of man. Faith is a stimulant, 
fear a deadly narcotic. Faith is food, fear is 
poison. Faith develops, fear destroys. 

Recalling again that the subconscious 
does not think but feels and that faith 
is a feeling, you will see why faith has been 
necessary to the uplift of mankind. 

Thoughts are cold things compared with 
feelings and " the faith that moves moun- 
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MENTAL ANALYSIS 

tains' ' is always a matter of heart more than 
head S3 33 

Law of Fixed Faiths 

^ Every fixed faith comes from one or many 
experiences which produced emotions so 
pleasing and uplifting that the memory of 
them sank deep into the subconscious mind. 

This accounts for the fact that cold logic 
never swerved any man from any religious 
faith which had fully satisfied him in times 
of need. 

Conversely, no man was ever completely 
won to any religious faith till his emotions 
had been appealed to, no matter how logical 
the evangelist. 

No public speaker ever became famous 
on his reasoning. His " heart as well as his 
head" had to talk. We are creatures of feel- 
ing much more than thinking; but our success 
in life depends upon directing our feelings 
by thinking. 

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When You Like People 

<$ All of us are swayed in favor of certain 
people purely upon our feelings. We see men 
and women whom we instantaneously like 
or even love, without being able to tell why. 

They may have none of the qualities we 
have always supposed necessary to the win- 
ning of our love, just as the other person we 
disliked may have had them all — but we 
love them — that's all. 

This illuminating new science of Mental 
Analysis shows us it is no accident that we 
instantaneously like or love another person. 
Whenever this happens it is because that 
person reminds the subconscious of a symbol 
which stands for some highly pleasurable 
emotion or group of pleasurable emotions 
in our past experience. 

Woman in the Fur Hat 

<I A man of our acquaintance who owned a 
grocery store told us that for thirty years 

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he had made it a point to wait on every 
woman who came into his store wearing 
a fur hat. 

No matter what he was doing he let a 
clerk take his customer and gave his attention 
to the fur-hatted woman. 

He had just one other fixed feeling and it 
was of an opposite nature. Whenever a man 
came in wearing an oil coat he waited on him 
only if there was no one else to do it and 
hustled him out as quickly as possible. 

He had no idea of the origin of these fixed 
attitudes till the above explanation was 
made. Next day he recalled vividly two 
experiences which he had not remembered 
for many years and which had given rise to 
the fixations. 

As a boy he had lived in Canada where the 
winters were long and severe. His mother, 
whom he adored and who died when he was 
seven, always wore a fur hat in the winter 
months (a fact which he did not consciously 
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remember, but which was corroborated by 
her photographs and by his uncle, the 
mother's brother, with whom he lived). 

Into his childish and sensitive subconscious 
had gone the memory of those happy emo- 
tions which his mother had given him, and 
all of which were symbolized by a woman in a 
fur hat 33 33 

The Man in the Oil Coat 

<R The explanation of his repugnance to men 
in oil coats was equally easy to analyze, once 
he was given a clew to his subconscious. 

His father, though a predominantly kind 
man, was a very austere one and as a boy he 
had been very much afraid of him. His father 
often threatened to punish him but he could 
remember only one time when he did so and 
that was one time when he did not deserve it. 

The father accused him of taking an ax to 
the woods and losing it when, as a matter of 
fact, he had not touched the ax and had seen 
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his father take it away himself that morning. 
The father denied this and gave the boy a 
severe whipping. 

When he did so he had just come in from 
looking everywhere for the ax and still wore 
his heavy oil coat. " I never smell an oil coat 
without experiencing the same sufferings I 
had during the few moments my father was 
lashing me." 

In this case the oil coat had become, in an 
emotional moment, the symbol of injustice, 
unhappiness, punishment and disgrace. 

Popular Fixed Fears 

<& Superstition against " Friday the Thir- 
teenth/' refusal to walk under ladders, hatred 
of having one's path crossed by a black cat, 
fear of raising an umbrella indoors, the super- 
stition against going back home to get some- 
thing without sitting down to count ten, and 
the certainty that breaking a mirror means 
" seven years of bad luck " are a few of the 
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most widespread and popular fixed fears. 

Almost every man and woman has one 
or more of these ancient superstitions so 
deeply planted in his mind that he would 
just a little rather avoid them. 

The only thing that can be said about 
them is that they belong to the Dark Ages. 

Psychology of Fixing Fancies 

^ But all our fixed feelings are not of an 
intensely happy or unhappy nature. Many 
of them are tinged only with sufficient pleasur- 
able feeling to make us know we have a 
definite preference, not necessarily a faith. 
On the other hand, we may have just 
enough prejudice against a person or thing 
to experience a vague unrest or the merest 
opposition, without its being sufficiently 
poignant to be called a fear. But always an 
instantaneous opposition, however slight, 
is the result of some previous painful 
emotion S3 33 

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Fear of Knives 

<][ A woman was obsessed by a fear of every- 
thing with a cutting edge. She could not work 
at her kitchen table so long as the butcher 
knife was in sight. Whenever she had to use 
it for cutting bread or cake she put it away 
as soon as possible. 

If her scissors fell into her lap while sewing 
she could not take another stitch until she 
had removed them. 

Whenever her husband or sons left their 
razors on the wash-basin in the bathroom 
she was ill half the morning. 

If she saw a penknife on the desk when 
writing a letter she could not go on until she 
had put it in a drawer, and then was usually 
too upset to finish. 

This condition had persisted since before 
she could remember, and was getting worse. 
The husband, after ten years of trying to cure 
her of it by telling her to " forget it," had 
finally accepted her strange fear and was 
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careful to put all such things out of sight. 

But their four sons were now grown and all 
living at home. They could never remember 
Mother's freakish terror and left their razors 
and knives about where she was constantly 
coming in contact with them. 

She was told by the Mental Analyst that 
this obsession was nothing more nor less 
than a fear fixed in her subconscious by some 
past painful experience in which a sharp- 
edged instrument had figured and which had 
ever since been a symbol of that painful 
emotion 53 53 

She was asked to let the matter lie 
fallow in her mind for a few days; to make 
no special effort to remember but to leave 
her memory free to recall anything connected 
with such an experience which might account 
for it. We saw her every day for a week but 
she could remember no incident of the 
kind 53 53 

Her disturbance at not having been able 
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to recall anything proved that she had been 
straining her conscious mind — the very 
opposite of the proper method. 

We told her to loosen her mental grip and 
let her mind drift for a few days or even 
weeks — until the memory came of its own 
accord S3 S3 

Explanation of the Fear 

<J In a few days she returned. She had dug 
up from her subconscious the recollection 
which fully explained the obsession. 

In her childhood her parents had been 
very poor. When she was three they lived in 
a tumbledown house where the windows had 
no catches and, to be kept open, had to be 
held up with sticks or other things. 

One Summer day, for lack of anything 
else, the mother had propped up a window 
in the kitchen with a long butcher knife. 
A few minutes later she had seen her baby 
sister, whom she dearly loved, push the knife 
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over, and in doing so permitted the window 
to fall upon the knife whose blade laid the 
baby's palm wide open. 

Fear of Sirens and Sawdust 

<J But the subconscious does not always 
choose such obvious elements as symbols 
and frequently chooses less significant ones 
instead of the outstanding things we might 
expect 53 33 

This is aptly illustrated in the case of a 
woman who had two terrors, neither of which 
seemed to bear any relation to the other or 
to anything she could recall. 

She was forced to the conclusion that she 
needed an analysis when she discovered she 
could not enjoy her new home — a beautiful 
frame house in a Middle-Western town — 
because of her long-standing dislike of the 
smell of new lumber. 

They had moved into the house before it 
was finished and the odor of the pine boards 
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became unbearable. Her husband suggested 
that she take a trip, that she was nervous 
and overwrought, but it was impossible for 
her to leave just as the new furniture and 
hangings were to be installed. 

One other thing had greatly disturbed 
her — the fire siren. 

This was one of those small towns where 
a steam whistle is used for a fire-alarm. The 
new home was within a block of the factory 
whose siren was used for this purpose. Its 
screech was deafening, and left her nervous 
for hours afterward. 

When told that these fears were from 
something which had happened in her past 
and doubtless in her childhood, she could 
recall nothing at the moment. But next day 
she related this story which was afterward 
corroborated by her sister 

Its details came out as vividly as though 
it had happened the day before, which was 
not as surprising as it sounds. Though her 
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subconscious had kept the memory below 
the threshhold of her conscious mind, this 
secret hiding of it had caused it to be etched 
in with even greater vividness than it would 
otherwise have been. 

This woman had grown up in a lumber 
camp. When about four years of age she had 
witnessed an accident at the sawmill. One 
of the men, in handling the logs, had slipped, 
lost his balance and had his foot carried with 
the log into the saw. 

She had seen him fall, and almost died of 
fright as the great jagged saw-teeth sliced 
his foot from the ankle. She saw it fall off 
into the sawdust. Ever after the smell of 
lumber and the sight of sawdust were sub- 
conscious symbols of that experience. 

Her aversion to sirens and other screech- 
ing noises was as obvious as the other 
elements, when we recall that this peculiarly 
shrill scream of the saw accompanies every 
cut into a log. 

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She was so much more taken up with the 
awful sight that she was not conscious of 
having heard the screech of the saw at the 
moment of the accident, but the subcon- 
scious recorded it as part of the symbol. 

When this memory was allowed to air 
itself fully the obsession began to fade and 
in a few months had entirely disappeared. 

A Man's Story 

<I A Minneapolis man caused much comment 
among his friends a few years ago. He was 
handsome, had more than average means, 
was much sought after by women, equally 
popular among men, and a success in business. 
He was fastidious in his dress and person 
to the point of eccentricity. Any one of a 
dozen wealthy and beautiful society girls 
would gladly have accepted him in marriage. 
But he seemed to have no serious affairs of 
the heart, though he paid homage to many 
women 53 53 

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At thirty-six he met a young professional 
woman, a law student, who wore her hair 
cropped short like a man's and who dressed 
in extremely mannish fashion. They were 
married two weeks afterward. 

The man was as much mystified as his 
friends at his strange attraction, and the 
only explanation he could give was this: 

" I have always had a fixed fear of long 
human hair. Since I was a small boy I have 
never seen a long, loose hair lying on anything 
without its disgusting me. Occasionally when 
a stray one came home inside my shirt with 
my laundry it made me actually ill. 

11 I have never known why I had this queer 
aversion and all my friends laugh at me for 
it. I laugh at myself, but that doesn't help 
matters 53 53 

11 In my youth when women wore their 

hair fluffy and flying about the face, I was 

terrified whenever I was with a young woman, 

for fear one of those long, silky hairs would 

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attach itself to me. I liked several girls tre- 
mendously, but the fear of ever touching 
that long hair prevented my ever falling 
really in love. 

" The young law student was a girl of 
brains, personality and native good looks. 
We had the same tastes and ideas. She was 
no more interesting in many ways than some 
of the young society girls I had met, but I 
loved her short hair. 

1 1 1 have been ideally happy in my marriage. 
My wife, now that she has given up law, and 
since she knows her short hair is a handicap 
to me as well as herself, wants to let it grow. 
She has discarded the mannish clothes and 
naturally the short hair is incongruous. 
But I can not bear the notion, nor explain 
why." 53 S3 

He was told the law of fixed fears and in 
about a week recalled an incident of his child- 
hood which he had not consciously remem- 
bered for many years but which fully ex- 
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6 d 

plained the complex and in the end cleared 
it up to the place where he was willing for his 
wife to have long hair. 

When he was a small boy — somewhere 
between five and seven — he and his younger 
sister were playing one day in the woodshed 
where the laundress was doing the family 
washing 53 53 

This was in the days of the washboard 
and old fashioned tubs to which were 
attached the big rollers for wringing clothes. 
The baby sister, who had very long hair, 
dropped her ball into the tub, ran and 
leaned over to rescue it, just as the laundress 
was ready to put a handful of clothes through 
the wringer. 

The baby's curls were carried into it and 
she was lifted off the floor by her hair and 
suspended there for what was a terrified 
moment before the boy could make the 
laundress thoroughly understand what was 
wrong 53 53 

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The Strain of Music 

flf But every individual has, in addition to 
these painful ones, hundreds of pleasurable 
fixations which give him enjoyment. 

You have preferences of many kinds which 
are as intense as they are inexplicable. 

One woman of our acquaintance loves a 
certain strain of Dvorak's " Humoresque" 
so much that she is filled with ecstasy every 
time she hears it and keeps it on her Victrola 
to play whenever she is depressed or unhappy 
about anything. 

The first time she heard it was one night 
in the dining room of the Biltmore just after 
the theater. The young man whom she loved 
and is now married to, had taken her there 
to supper. He proposed to her as the orches- 
tra was playing this selection. 

The Linen Handkerchief 

<§ A noted business man of Kansas City who 

prides himself on his hardheadedness keeps 

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twenty clean handkerchiefs in the right hand 
drawer of his private desk because he finds 
he can talk big deals over with much more 
confidence if, at the moment of opening the 
discussion, he can also open up a crisp, creased, 
perfectly fresh handkerchief. 

But handkerchiefs are not mere handker- 
chiefs to him. Indeed, they are a very great 
deal more 33 33 

He declares they have a personality all 
their own. The only kind he will use are those 
of the severest plainness but of pure linen. 
Whenever he is presented with one bearing 
an initial, a fancy border or a touch of color 
— different in any way from the kind he 
prefers — he not only does not use it but is 
upset till he has disposed of it. 

The fact that this man can not remember 
what caused all this does not alter the law. 
Somewhere in his past he had a very pleasant 
emotional experience in which there figured 
a crisp, clean linen handkerchief. 
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The Cuckoo Clock 

<I An interesting illustration of how some- 
thing which has been a symbol of a painful 
emotion can later become symbolic of a 
pleasant one is seen in the following. 

In Denver in 1909, lived a splendid and 
sensible young woman who had one little 
fixation. Owing to an unpleasant experience 
with a cuckoo clock years before, she could 
not bear the ticking of watches or clocks. 

She held an important position in which 
she needed a watch but instead of wearing it, 
hung it up on the wall as far away from her 
desk as she could see its hands. 

She would not own a clock and at night 
put the watch under her sofa pillows at the 
far end of her room. This condition had 
persisted for fifteen years. 

Then the young man who is now her 

husband and whom she was deeply in love 

with at the time, went to California and 

wanted some one to keep his valuable cuckoo 

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clock for him while away. The young woman 
not only put it up in her room, but loved its 
ticking, cuckooing and everything else. 

When teased about the sudden change 
she declared its noises were entirely different 
from those of all other clocks, and that.it 
seemed to say, " Julius, Julius, Julius' ' (the 
young man's name), with every swing of the 
pendulum. It had been so long associated 
with him that to her, in his absence, it became 
a living symbol of her lover. The memory of 
the old unpleasant emotion was erased and 
has not returned. 

In the lesson " Love, Courtship and 
Marriage' ' the effect of symbols on our loves 
will be taken up more fully. The aim here is 
to give a few illustrations of the power of all 
kinds of symbols in our lives. 

The Heliotrope Perfume 

<j[ A Chicago banker of fifty, conservative, 
conventional to a degree, and so austere as 

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to be almost formidable, has one fixed 
preference. 

He loves heliotrope and, though con- 
sciously despising the use of perfume, espe- 
cially by men, must have a drop or two 
applied to his tie every morning before he 
can go to the bank. If he forgets it he makes 
his chauffeur turn around and take him 
home to get it. 

He has had a standing order with his 
florist for twenty years, and every day before 
noon a small sprig of heliotrope is delivered, 
put into an exquisite little vase and placed 
by his secretary at a certain spot on his desk. 

One day last year this secretary met with 
a sudden accident and was sent home from 
the office before he had arranged the flowers. 
In the excitement the little package contain- 
ing the flowers was put into the taxi with him 
and carried away. 

The banker told us himself that though 
some of the biggest bank heads in Chicago 
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were in his office at that moment for a dis- 
cussion concerning a loan of two million, 
and every moment important to them all, 
he could not begin the conference until a 
new bouquet had been obtained and placed 
in its vase at exactly the proper angle in front 
of him 53 53 

" I am fully aware and always have been 
of the origin of this fixation, though I have 
never told any one before. As you know, I 
am unmarried but, as you probably do 
not know, I shall always remain unmarried. 
I have loved but one woman. 

" She loved me in return. I was not a young, 
impressionable boy but a man past thirty 
when I met and cared for her. 

"She always used heliotrope perfume and 
the first time I ever saw her a sprig of these 
little flowers was pinned to her muff. She 
died 53 53 

"To me she lives whenever I breathe this 
exquisite odor. I would not wish to live 
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myself if I could not have it near me. I have 
felt this way for twenty years." 

Strange Fixations 

<J There are many people who have freakish 
fixations which they can not explain and 
which, unless they cause trouble, need not 
be traced to their source. They should, how- 
ever, be cleared up if they become obsessions. 

One such case is that of a man who never 
steps on a crack in the sidewalk. He can not 
carry on a coherent conversation when walk- 
ing with you down the street because he is so 
concentrated on avoiding the cracks in the 
cement or boards. 

A certain Boston woman can not over- 
come the notion that germs are in everything 
and lives in terror lest she will be infected. 

She washes her hands fifty times a day, 

will not wear anything coming from a store 

without first having it laundered, and will 

eat no food save what is cooked under her 

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own supervision in her own kitchen by a 
woman she has trained. 

She is well acquainted with the fact that 
only lowered bodily resistance makes us 
susceptible to germs and that though they 
are everywhere we are safe from them if we 
keep in good physical condition. 

But that does not eliminate the strange 
fixation. She is the bony type that can not 
bring itself to believe in " these new-fangled 
sciences,'' so is spending her life in trench 
warfare with bacteria. 

A Post Fixation 

<I A Philadelphia minister says that for 
twenty years he has not been able to pass a 
gate post, a hitching post or a fence post 
without wanting to kick it. 

" Last Winter," he said, " the Bishop 

was in the city for a few days and we were 

entertaining him at our home. I hoped I 

might be able to avoid going near any posts 

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while with him and engaged a car to take us 
wherever he wanted to go. 

" But the last day of his stay was sunny. 
He wanted to go for a walk, and insisted on 
its being down an avenue of fine old residences 
in front of many of which still stand the 
hitching posts of the pre-automobile era. 

" For the first block I managed to keep 
from kicking these things, but half way down 
the second one I had to step over and touch 
one with my foot. 

" The impulse was overwhelming. I said 
something about knocking some snow off 
my shoe and managed, by turning into 
another street at the next corner, to get along 
without doing it again. But I had to do it 
that once, regardless." 

Pin Fixations 

<I Many people can not walk past a pin on the 
floor; others can not resist the temptation 
to look at every scrap of paper they see on the 

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sidewalk. Others can not walk or drive with- 
out continuously counting the change in 
their pockets. Others must count the steps 
on every staircase they climb and know 
the number in every stairway of every home 
they frequent. 

We know a man in Washington, D. C, 
who can tell you the number of steps leading 
into every government building in that city, 
and also the exact number in every stairway 
in the U. S. Senate. 

A woman in Seattle said she never listened 
to a lecturer without counting the number 
of steps he took, from the moment he 
appeared till he left the platform. 

A man in Indianapolis said he had counted 
every gesture made by a certain lecturer 
during a six weeks' engagement and had 
filled a notebook describing them. 

This was not due to any special interest in 
the lecturer. He had done the same for every 
speaker he had listened to for many years. 
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Origin of Strange Fixations 

<I Every person with a freakish fixation such 
as these just described has acquired these 
strange avenues of expression because he was 
denied more normal outlets. 

For instance, the woman who was so afraid 
of germs is a spinster of the most straight- 
laced type. She has held the same position 
for twenty-three years, is faithfulness itself 
and conventional to excess. She has not only 
not married but never had a love affair. 

Many of the normal instincts have had to 
be repressed. Since she is of this severe type 
she had expelled them so completely from 
the conscious mind that the feeling which 
should have been given to them has broken 
out, as do all repressed urges, via the sub- 
conscious. 

Her subconscious has merely produced 
a substitute upon which to expend her energy. 

The minister who kicks posts lived for 
several years in China as a missionary and 
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as it was difficult for him to learn the 
language, was denied almost all companion- 
ship. He acquired this habit there. 

The man who counts the steps in Wash- 
ington was disappointed in love years ago 
and in the preoccupation which submerged 
him at the time unconsciously acquired this 
habit 53 S3 

Every person who, for any reason, is driven 
in upon himself breaks out again through 
channels which are slightly or extremely 
abnormal — depending on the type of indi- 
vidual and the severity of his suffering. 

Every lonely person after a while takes on 
strange habits. All who are compelled to live 
much alone, and most of those who are forced 
to repress the mating instinct, ultimately 
become " queer," and some unbalanced. 

"Keeping the Faiths" 

^ If your fixed feelings are fixed faiths — that 

is, if they reassure you, uplift you, sustain 

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you, and help you to live a better, happier 
life, do not let anything or anybody take 
them away from you. 

If they are fixed fancies of a pleasing sort, 
such as the preference for heliotrope which 
the banker has, by all means keep them. 

Life is all too drab and difficult not to 
brighten it by these innocent and purifying 
means whenever possible. 

One Woman's Fixed Faith 

<§ A woman of our acquaintance who took 
her own part with great gusto in everything 
else permitted people to impose on her in 
just one way. 

She allowed them to push past her into 
street cars, subways and all manner of other 
places. She gave up her place with no re- 
sistance whatever, seeming almost pleased 
to do so. 

When asked for the cause of the strange 
inconsistency she said: 

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" Four times my life has been saved be- 
cause I lost a place in line. Twice it caused 
me to miss a train — once because the man 
in front of me at the Pullman windowdropped 
his change and tickets and kept me waiting 
while he gathered them up; and once because 
the baggage man did not get my trunk 
checked in time. 

" Both these trains were wrecked. 

" At another time I was refused admittance 
to a packed elevator. I was in a hurry and 
insisted on getting in. The fact that a large 
woman who was standing behind me was 
permitted to enter it did not lessen my anger. 

11 The operator lost control of his car which 
was overcrowded, and it dropped eight stories, 
killing instantly every person in it. 

" The day of the historic Iroquois Theater 
fire in Chicago I was standing in line for a 
ticket when I discovered I had lost my purse 
and stepped out of line to find it. By doing 
so I lost the chance to see the play. 
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" If I had not lost my place I would doubt- 
less have been among the hundreds burned 
alive in that awful disaster. 

11 Now whenever I lose a place in line I 
believe it is for some good purpose." 

Bonaparte's firm faith that " the bullet 
had not been cast nor the shell tempered that 
could kill Napoleon' ' not only filled the minds 
of his enemies with fear of even attempting 
it, but carried him to many victories. 

Freeing Yourself of Fixed Fears 

<I But if you have fixed fears of any nature 
you must master them or run the risk of 
their mastering you. 

Nothing in nature remains stationary. 
The moment you are not getting stronger 
you are getting weaker. The man who stops 
climbing has begun to slide back. 

To live a healthful, happy, honorable life 
you must be master of your moods. To be 
master of your moods, the first thing to do 
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is: face the fact and begin to be honest and 
sensible 33 33 

Mental Analysis, this most searching and 
profound of all human sciences, has proved 
that most of our worst mental and physical 
ailments, disappointments and failures come 
from our refusal to be frank and straight- 
forward with ourselves. 

Whether the thing you are afraid of is big 
or little, real or imaginary, you can be free 
from it if you try. 

You are one of God's creatures and God 
never meant any creature to be sad, dejected 
or frightened. We make ourselves so by 
violating His divine laws. 

Renovating the Subconscious 

flf If your obsessions are those of regret for 
past sins of commission or omission, try 
to think of this subconscious of yours as a 
pool that you are going to drain by being 
perfectly honest with yourself. 
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And you can be because nothing you have 
ever done, thought, said or been guilty of 
was so very bad. 

The force that rules the universe is big, 
beautiful, and above all, benign. A benign 
force, whether personal or impersonal, for- 
gives or ignores our faults. Put yourself in 
harmony with the divine by forgiving your- 
self right now for anything that has been 
causing you regret or remorse. 

No matter what you have done or failed 
to do, just remember tbis: you did the best 
your nature was capable of at that time, 
under those conditions, and with those par- 
ticular temptations. 

The worse it was the more is it necessary 
that you do that much better in the future. 

You can not do anything big or fine with 
fear gripping and crippling you. 

Whatever negative thing is in your mind 
and however long it may have been there, 
it can be eliminated by doing two things: 
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First, be honest with yourself. Admit to 
yourself that you have been a weak, silly fool 
or anything else that you have been. But 
don't let it discourage you. 

Confession is good for the soul. It clears 
the air. It blows the cobwebs out of your 
mind. It is a mental vacuum cleaner. 

Second, realize that whatever you desire 
to come true in your life can be brought to 
pass if you really want it. 

It can be brought to pass by the same 
power that has brought most of the things 
you have in your life — your own sub-con- 
scious mind. 

It will not do so in a day. The subconscious 
does not respond to a thought until many 
times repeated. The only thing it reacts to 
instantly is feeling. But through a law which 
is fully explained in the last lesson of this 
course, any desired impulse can be planted 
in the subconscious. 

Once there, it will operate with the same 
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unresting force as these other urges of ours 
which have been shot into it by emotion. 

You can plant in your subconscious soil 
the seeds of anything you truly desire. It 
will bring forth its harvest according to its 
nature S3 33 

You must stop filling this great battery 
with negative energy. 

By right thinking you can make all its 
energy positive, and that positive force will 
bring to pass whatever you deeply desire. 



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Mind is the master power 

That molds and makes, 
And man IS mind, 

And evermore he takes 
The tool of thought 

And shaping what he wills. 
Brings forth a thousand joys 

Or a thousand ills. 
He thinks in secret 

And it comes to pass, 
Environment is just 

His looking-glass. 



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Lesson IV 



Mental Miracles 

AN is a unit. Each 
human being is 
an organized 
community of liv- 
ing cells, of which 
there are over 
twenty-six tril- 
lions in the com- 
monwealth of the 
brain and body. 
This intricate 
and intimate relationship between all the 
cells of the human organism is effected 
through two channels — the nervous system 
and the circulatory system. 

The living cables of the nervous system 
run from the brain through the spinal cord 
and solar plexus; and branch and rebranch 
until practically every cell in the body has 
its own tiny nerve. 

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By means of this sensitive system any part 
of the brain or body instantly influences — 
for health or disease, happiness or distress — 
every other part of the organism. 

Nerve Messengers 

^ To illustrate to yourself how quickly and 
keenly the outside world, without tangible 
contact, affects the body through this delicate 
nervous system, recall what happened to you 
when you have smelled something extremely 
disagreeable. 

The impression was carried to the brain 
which instantly sent over its nerve-wires a 
mental telegram to your stomach. If it was 
very unpleasant you became nauseated. 

If the revulsion was severe there resulted 
those violent convulsions of the stomach 
which cause vomiting. 

Yet you had neither touched nor tasted 
the unpleasant thing — merely heard of it 
through your nerves. 

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Chemical Messengers 
<I The next day you are passing a bakery. 
You smell the delicious odor of bread. The 
brain dispatches a pleasing telegram to your 
stomach telling it to secrete the gastric juices 
preparatory to digesting some of that bread. 

You instantly become hungry. If you can 
not stop and get a loaf to take home or eat 
it then and there — if you keep on going and 
ignore it — an interesting thing happens. 

The juices which ran into your stomach 
on that hurry call have no food to work on. 
Since their energy (like that of everything 
else) must expend itself, they agitate your 
empty stomach — an abnormal process, which 
in turn makes you slightly physically and 
then mentally upset. 

When that point is reached the circle is 
completed; you are back to the mind from 
whence the message first came. 

Your body and mind always operate in this 
circle. Whatever affects one affects the other. 
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A mental disturbance not only harms the 
body but, because the body also affects the 
mind, comes back like a boomerang when it 
completes the circle. 

A physical disturbance not only upsets 
the mental processes, but returns, via their 
influence, back to the body in that same 
vicious circle. 

Human Hungers 

^ This little hunger for the bread is only the 
most elemental illustration. Every normal 
human being has hundreds and thousands 
of hungers . 

The particular kind most frequent and 
intense with each individual comes, as a 
bread-hunger would ultimately have come, 
from your own inner nature. This inner 
nature will show in his externals and deter- 
mine his type. 

But life is forever tempting, reminding, 
awakening these sleeping tendencies, just as 
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the accidental passing by the bakery awak- 
ened your hunger for bread. 

Type Hungers 

<§ Now if you had been excessively hungry — 
that is, had a deep inner urge for food — 
before you came to the bakery it would have 
been much more difficult for you to keep going. 

And so it is with our type-hungers. They 
come from our inner biological systems, and 
are quick to flare up when anything occurs 
in our environment which appeals to them. 

But whether the hunger comes from the 
over-development of an inner system or is 
aroused by outer stimuli, any hunger which 
is repressed and ignored expends its pent- 
up energy, as did the gastric juices, on some- 
thing else. Thus we have discovered the 

Law of Repression 

<I Every intense impulse or ambition which 
is refused expression through normal, natural 

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outlets, finds less normal and sometimes 
abnormal outlets for itself. 

Today science shows that most of our 
unhappiness and failure and practically all 
our ill health, half-health and disease are 
but the distorted expressions of deep desires 
long repressed. 

The Dammed-Up Stream 

^ Your mental and physical energy is like a 
river. It must flow onward and outward to 
stay pure and natural. 

A pool becomes stagnant only when denied 
an outlet. The most foul water purifies itself 
in a few miles of rapid flowing. 

Society in general, and conditions or 
relations in which we place ourselves restrain 
us and choke back this natural expression 
as a dam holds back a river. 

Such a dam holds the water back tempo- 
rarily, and nothing happens. 

But if the pressure becomes greater and 
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t— s 

greater, after a while one of two things will 
happen: the dam will break or the stream 
will burst over in another direction. 

Disease and wrongdoings are often the 
breaking out of the subconscious stream. 
Reversions are the result of the breaking of 
the dam itself. 

Causes of Crime 

^ Criminologists declare that crime is the 
result of the repression of the true personality 
and that criminals differ from the average 
man and woman chiefly in that a much larger 
proportion of the personality is thwarted. 

It is well known that delinquents are 
invariably defective physically and often 
physically deformed. 

Every man who has been long a criminal 
has one or more serious physical diseases — 
a fact known to all heads of jails, reform 
schools, penitentiaries, and to all penal and 
social investigators. 

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These and hundreds of corroborative facts 
prove how closely the body, mind and spirit 
of man are intertwined, and how everything 
which affects one affects the other. 

What To Do 

<I It is not necessary to dwell on these im- 
pulses in our minds nor to act them out in 
our lives. 

Civilization has cost too much on the part 
of brave souls and is too great a boon to 
mankind for any individual to revert to the 
primitive where all this is lost on him. 

He owes it to himself, first of all, and 
second to the world, to straighten his spine 
and live the life of a man. 

We have been told this before. But we 
have not been told how to make a working 
compromise between these inner impulses 
which, for any reason, could not be expressed 
naturally, and the ideals we so much desired 
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No one was to blame for this state of 
affairs. No one knew, until very recently, 
that choking an intense impulse did not 
kill it S& 3& 

No one suspected, for instance, the real 
reason for the chronic ailments, soured dis- 
positions and ''queer streaks' ' of old maids 
of both sexes; nor why people who live alone, 
people who are unloved or unsuccessful, 
develop certain kinds of maladies, mental 
and physical. 

About w Forgetting " 

^ Today we know that the admonition to 
" forget it " merely crowds the unspent energy 
down into the lower reaches of the organism, 
from whence it emerges sooner or later in 
some less natural form. 

The big lesson taught by Mental Analysis 

is that whenever you have any intense 

impulse which can not or should not be 

expressed, you are to look it straight in the 

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face, realize that it is no different from the 
impulses of millions who have gone before 
you; that it is not perverted, disgraceful nor 
anything to be ashamed of as an impulse. 

No Self-Hate 

<I The thing to be ashamed of would be the 
secret loathing of yourself for having it or 
permitting it to act itself out in harmful, 
dishonorable or destructive deeds. 

After you have looked at it; after you have 
recognized it for the out of date or out of 
place impulse it is, say to this thing: " Yes, 
you were all right in your day, a million 
years ago before we learned that human 
progress depended on the development of 
the higher instincts. You are the natural 
descendant of the primitive in me, and as 
such are not to blame for being here. 

" But if you think I am going to live down 
to your level just because you are here, you 
are very much mistaken! 
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" Now, you have a lot of energy. Stop 
whining in the dark there. Come out into the 
light and I '11 put that energy to work. I am 
a twentieth century human being with a 
brain and I am going to live the life of one, 
not that of a man of dead ages. 

11 I have nothing against you. All you need 
is to expend that energy of yours. I '11 find 
something right out here in the daylight for 
you to do. Get at it! " 

Tender-Minded vs. Tough-Minded 

9 As a result of our wrong systems of train- 
ing the most sensitive and high-minded are 
often obsessed with a sense of shame and 
disgrace which cripples all their efforts, while 
the " tough-minded/ ' as James called them, 
express more of their inner urges, accomplish 
more, keep their health and get the good 
things out of life. 

They do not do this necessarily by express- 
ing destructive urges in their original form, 
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but often by an automatic sublimation 
natural to their biological type. 

Other and finer types — taught by parents, 
teachers, preachers and society that certain 
things are vile — believe it and grow to 
despise themselves. 

Psychology of Shame 

<& No human being can stay well or do good 
work who secretly loathes himself. 

It is small wonder that some of our ortho- 
dox churches are empty. Renunciation and 
repression are stunting, saddening, sicken- 
ing doctrines. They weaken, disintegrate and 
destroy 53 53 

The sense of " original sin," of an inner 
filth that can never be quite eliminated, is 
fatal to health and happiness. Of its own 
force, it is ultimately fatal to any sect that 
teaches it 53 53 

God never intended any living thing to be 
cowed or shamed. Everything in nature grows 
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up, not down. It grows with its head toward 
the heavens. 

When human beings listen less to men 
and more to the sermons in every sun-seeking 
flower, they will begin to be good, happy, 
healthy and successful. 

Conscious vs. Subconscious 

^ The average individual tries not to think 
or feel certain things. He crowds them out 
of his mind and thinks they are gone. 

Today we know that whatever is pushed 
out of consciousness recedes into subcon- 
sciousness. 

If these throttled thoughts concern deep 
desires they come back again and again. If 
rejected over and over they finally return 
behind the " false face" of some unaccount- 
able attitude which we do not recognize as 
connected with anything we have previously 
felt. We now know these are merely old 
urges in disguise. 

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(===) 

Most of our physical ills, emotional ex- 
plosions, outbursts of temper and faults are 
these repressed impulses on masquerade. 

Satan At Our Shoulders 

<$ As children we were taught that the way 
to dispose of Satan was to say, " Get thee 
behind me." We were told that when we did 
this Satan vanished. 

Today the science of Mental Analysis shows 
what we have always suspected — that Satan 
stayed right there and has been talking over 
our shoulders ever since! 

It shows us that we have got to do some- 
thing besides put Satan behind our backs 
unless we wish to be pushed into the very 
things we fear. 

Fortunately, it shows us that the things 
we must do to turn his power into construc- 
tive channels is much easier than the things 
we have been doing in our blind and ignorant 
efforts to get rid of him. 

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Where Faults Come From 

<I Every human fault, like every disease, is 
the result of dammed-up energy. 

Everything in the world moves, and does so 
because it is full of energy. Nothing is ever 
still, even for an instant, no matter how 
much it may appear so. 

Everything — from the particles in the wood- 
en chair on which you sit to the constellations 
in the sky — are moving, moving, moving. 

Motion is the law of the universe. Motion 
creates energy and energy must expend itself. 

If you do not permit it to expend itself in 
natural, normal ways it expends itself in ab- 
normal, unnatural ways — depending always 
on the type of individual and the weakest 
point in his physical or mental makeup. 

When you see no evil effects for a time you 
imagine you have obliterated this impulse. 

But you have only bottled it, and the 
longer you keep the cork in the more it 
ferments. Some day it will explode. 
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Expression and Repression 

<§i Any work, situation or condition which 
compels you to keep on doing a thing you do 
not like to do causes the gradual building up 
within you of a mass of aversions and 
repulsions which eventually break forth. 

They may not break out in open rebellion 
against the thing itself. In fact we have dis- 
covered that the greater the dislike of a thing 
on the part of certain types of people the 
less likely are they to voice their resentment 
or to show open resistance to that specific 
thing S3 S3 

These are the people to whom comes the 
greatest harm. Whenever you express open 
opposition to a thing you "let off steam' ' 
and relieve the pressure just that much. 

The types that " speak out" have far 
fewer subconscious complexes than the silent, 
timid ones, though they often have the very 
ones they and their friends would least 
expect to find in them. 

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The Hidden Fires 

<$i A young boy was left alone while his mother 
went to the corner grocery. A box of papers 
he was playing with caught fire from the open 
grate. He was too young to know how to put 
out the fire and afraid to run away from it. 
So he ran to the back stairs, threw the blazing 
box into the basement and slammed the door. 

He had a few moments of apparent safety. 

But the house burned down. 

Effect of the Wish 

<I It used to be supposed that some men had 
an aim and others had not; that some knew 
what they wanted and others had no prefer- 
ences; that some men were blessed with 
ambitions and others did n't care. 

Today we know that every individual has 
many subconscious wishes and one over- 
whelming subconscious longing toward 
whose attainment every act of his life is 
consciously or unconsciously directed. 
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Everything which tends toward the fulfil- 
ment of this subconscious wish reacts con- 
structively, happily, healthily back upon his 
body, mind, work, and life in its entirety. 

Everything which hinders it reacts destruc- 
tively upon every element of his personality 
— physical, mental, moral and spiritual — 
and takes its toll in some form of depression, 
disintegration or disease. 

Minstrels and w The Merry Widow " 

<J " An interesting illustration of how the 
thwarting of a subconscious wish can cause 
physical troubles and how quickly the 
removal of the barrier can cure, came to my 
notice in 1910," said a physician recently. 

11 It also shows the lesser power of conscious 
wishes as compared to the great force of 
subconscious ones. 

11 I was sent for at 4:30 one afternoon to 
come to an office in the State Capitol in 
Denver where a young woman was ill. 
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" She was suffering with intense pain and 
had a temperature of 103. 

" It developed at five o'clock, when the 
rest of the office force left, that she had been 
very anxious to see 'The Merry Widow' 
which was playing at the Broadway Theater 
that week, and was to have gone with the 
rest of the girls that evening to see it. 

" She was much disappointed that her 
illness necessitated their giving the ticket 
to some one else. 

" While we waited for the taxi which was 
to take her home she told me how sorry she 
was not to see ' The Merry Widow ' but glad 
she did n't have to see the minstrels which 
were also in town. She very much disliked 
minstrels, she said. 

11 A moment later the telephone rang and 
she was asked for. I told the young man at 
the other end of the wire that she was too ill 
to answer. But before I could prevent it she 
took up the receiver. 

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" Two minutes later she walked out of that 
room free of her headache and fever — 
perfectly well. 

" The illness, she told me as we walked 
down the hall, had come from a week's worry 
over not having heard from the young man, 
whom she loved devotedly. She feared she had 
lost him. 

" When he phoned and asked her to go 
that evening to the minstrel show (having 
already seen ' The Merry Widow' himself) 
she found she would love the minstrels after 
all; that she did n't mind missing ' The 
Merry Widow' and was well enough to go." 

The illness in this case was real. The desire 
to see "The Merry Widow" and not to see 
the minstrels was genuine, but existed only 
in her conscious mind, whereas the desire to 
be with the young man was part of a deep 
subconscious wish and, as such, able to make 
her not only glad to see the minstrels, but to 
become well instantly. 

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Fear and Health 

^ Fear causes more maladies, physicians say, 
than all other things combined. The man 
who is afraid is never a well man. 

Strange as it may seem, it is the fears we 
repress more than the fears we express, which 
do us severe harm — another illustration of 
how things shoved back into subconscious- 
ness wreak their force upon us under assumed 
appearances 33 33 

Fear and Epidemics 

^f It is a historical and well-known fact that 
every war is followed by epidemics. 

We have assumed that congestion of masses 
of men, poor sanitation and exposure were 
the inevitable causes, and certain it is that 
these have had much to do with it. 

But hundreds of the leading physicians 

of the world have declared that the Spanish 

Influenza epidemic of 191 8 was caused 

largely by fear in many cases and that at its 

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height many people had every outward 
symptom of this disease without the slightest 
fever or any actually diseased condition. 
They have gone a step farther and declared 
that patients died under the impression that 
they were afflicted with this malady when, as 
a matter of fact, they were killed by fear. 

Complexes and Consciousness 

fl It was shown in a previous lesson that 
fixed fears always come from very painful 
emotional experiences of one's past. 

The insidious and far-reaching effect of a 
single fixed fear was explained. 

Imagine then the effect upon the individual 
of an integrated, organized group of fixed 
fears — a "set" of them — surrounding some 
long drawn out or vital experience in his life. 

Mental science distinguishes these groups 

of fixed fears by the name of complexes. They 

differ from others chiefly in the fact that 

instead of one element they have many. 

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Single fixed fears arise from momentary 
or even instantaneous experiences, such as 
the little girl suffered in the fraction of a 
second when she witnessed the saw cutting 
off the man's foot. Her fixed fear of screeching 
noises and the smell of lumber was born in 
that instant of intense emotion. 

What can rightly be called a complex is 
the result of an experience of much longer 
duration — sometimes of years — which con- 
tained many characteristics. Several of these 
are symbolized in the subconscious mind 
with such vividness that being reminded 
of one brings the " total experience' ' forth 
from memory's vault. 

A Husband's Complex 

<i A Cleveland broker who had a reputation 
for cool-headedness and self-control developed 
a violent complex against women's white 
kid gloves, plumes, French-heeled shoes and 
baby-Irish lace. 

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Whether displayed in shops or being worn 
by their fair owners, whenever and wherever 
he saw any of these things his composure 
instantly left him and he grew angry, dis- 
gusted and resentful. 

Though he succeeded in concealing his 
agitation from his friends and employees, he 
declared it was hours, sometimes days, 
before he fully recovered. 

These things upset him, he said, because 
they brought back to him with terrific force 
memories of a bitter period in his life. 

Many years before he had been married 
to a charming and unusually beautiful 
woman whom he idolized — the only woman 
moreover that ever interested him. 

She flirted with other men, gave him ten 
years of heart-breaking disillusionment and 
finally eloped with a clerk of his office. 

She was a woman of extremely fashionable 
and fastidious tastes. She specialized in 
French-heeled shoes, white kid gloves, and 
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the willow plumes and baby-Irish lace which 
were the mode at that time. 

Whenever he saw any of these things the 
tragedy of the whole ten years engulfed him — 
the " total experience' ' lived itself over in his 
feelings, condensed and intensified. 

Not only did it remind him of the love for 
his wife, the scandal in the newspapers, the 
loneliness and shame he underwent because 
of her deception, it recalled the humiliation 
his pride had suffered at her having gone 
away with one of his own employees. This 
was a young man he had never liked and 
whom he had often reprimanded. 

A Wife's Complex 

<I A woman developed a complex against 
men smoking pipes. She had once liked the 
sight of a man smoking a pipe and, unlike 
the man just described, could not imagine 
why she became enraged whenever she saw 
a pipe in any man's mouth. 

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If, in addition to seeing it, she heard the 
slight smack of the lips as he puffed at its 
stem her emotion was so intense she had to 
leave the room or even the street car in which 
it was occurring. 

As she was a widow and had several chil- 
dren to support, she found it necessary to 
overcome this violent aversion. 

She had just been promoted to a much 
better paying position which she was perfectly 
able to fill but which she was having great 
difficulty with because several men at nearby 
desks smoked pipes during office hours. 

After a time she realized that something 
she had faithfully pushed out of her conscious 
mind for years and which she had not once 
admitted to herself, was a fact and that this 
fact had given rise to the complex. 

Cause of Her Complex 

<I Her husband insisted on a large family, 
yet failed to support them. 

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He was an able man who drew a good 
salary at the time of their marriage. She 
loved him devotedly and believed him when 
he said he could get nothing to do later on. 

He finally gave up trying to work, on the 
plea of not being well, and spent all his time 
at home, sitting by the fire, puffing away at 
his pipe. 

He was finally killed in an automobile 
accident — after the wife had had twelve years 
of hard work trying to support their family — 
twelve years when her most vivid picture of 
him was as he looked and sounded, sitting 
there by the fire, smacking his lips on his 
pipe stem. 

She had never permitted her conscious 
mind to harbor the suspicion that he was lazy, 
worthless and selfish. But the conviction of 
it was imbedded deep in her subconscious 
which had symbolized the heartaches and 
hardships of the whole twelve years in the 
scene and sound of a man smoking a pipe. 
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Types and Complexes 

^ You have often wondered why two people 
of the same family (therefore of the same 
heredity) and of the same environment 
(living in the same house under exactly iden- 
tical conditions) would react in diametrically 
opposite ways to the same experience. 

For instance, twin sisters lose their mother 
through death. 

One is completely overwhelmed by grief, 
loses weight, becomes ill and is unconsolable, 
while the other grows rosier and plumper 
every day and goes on just as before. 

Why does one girl develop a complex and 
the other not? 

Chiefly because of difference in type. 

Certain types react to certain kinds of 
experiences destructively and others con- 
structively, and do so habitually and auto- 
matically 3$ 33 

On the other hand, the girl who reacts with 
automatic constructiveness to her mother's 

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death may develop complexes from different 
kinds of experiences which would not affect 
the other girl at all. 

What Happens To You 

<J Whenever the mind is working destructive- 
ly — when, for instance, you are full of fear — 
it throws the switch and sidetracks the body, 
preventing its running properly or safely. 

When our emotions become tangled up with 
wrong ideas, destructive attitudes or opposi- 
tion, they are at cross purposes with the body. 

This always has its damaging results. 
These results may show themselves in the 
form of nervousness, ill temper, ill health, 
melancholia, neurosis, insanity, crime or 
suicide — always depending on the type of 
individual. 

Or, they may merely cause him to wonder 

what is wrong between himself and the world ; 

to form incomprehensible aversions to people 

and things in his environment; or to be 

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vaguely restless, upset or unhappy, without 
knowing why. 

Dreams and Diseases 

<I Thousands of facts go to show that the 
dreamer weaves his own dream out of the raw 
materials in his own conscious experience 
and subconscious desires — that each dream 
is the dreamer's own psychic production. 

This fact is of the utmost significance. It 
has shown the underlying causes for neuroses 
and other illnesses which, until the discovery 
of Mental Analysis, were inexplicable to phy- 
sicians and supposedly incurable. 

The psychologist is today curing many 
people of many maladies which the physician, 
dealing only with the body, failed to help. 

" Within ten years/ ' says a prominent 
surgeon, " every physician who undertakes 
to help a patient suffering from any functional 
disorder will make his first step the analysis 
of the patient's dreams.' ' 

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Today we know that numberless opera- 
tions, most organic and all functional ail- 
ments are the result of unhappiness, fear, 
repression or other negative mental con- 
ditions 33 33 

We know that nervous breakdowns, for 
instance, are due not so much to overwork 
as over-worry. 

Reality and Regression 

<& One of the most significant discoveries of 
recent times is that in every human being 
there is a subconscious tendency to escape 
from the facts of life whenever they become 
too painful 33 33 

In scientific circles there is a new but 
already well-known phrase describing this: 
" the flight from reality. " 

This profound and universal fact is revolu- 
tionizing the therapeutics of the civilized world . 

It is explaining all manner of mental, 
moral and physical maladies and curing them 
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because it deals with the real source of the 
trouble 53 53 

Forms of "Flight" 

^ The particular way taken to achieve the 
" flight from reality" will depend, in each 
case, upon the type, temperament and train- 
ing of the individual and the intensity of his 
sufferings. 

The most repressive, sensitive types suffer 
most because they bury their griefs and dis- 
appointments deeper than others. 

Those who express their feelings suffer 
least from the repressive ailments, as was 
proven during the World War. 

Soldiers and Shell-Shock 

<R Thousands of soldiers suffered from a 
baffling ailment. It robbed them of various 
phases of consciousness; it vented itself in 
all manner of mental derangements, with no 
two cases quite alike. 

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For the lack of a better name it was called 
" shell-shock/ ' though these men had not 
been hurt by shells, and other men, under 
precisely the same conditions, had come 
through safely and sanely. 

In many instances sight and hearing were 
lost, in spite of the fact that tests showed 
their eyes and ears to be in perfect condition. 

Thousands of such cases were cured upon 
being removed from the scene of battle and 
thousands more became well in an hour after 
the signing of the Armistice. 

What was the reason? The strange malady 
left as mysteriously as it came when the dan- 
ger disappeared. In these cases fear and fear 
alone was responsible, say the greatest auth- 
orities now. 

Repressed Fears 

<I It was not an open, expressed, conscious 

fear. Any openly expressed feeling drains off 

through consciousness. These shell-shocked 

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men were of the highest human grade. They 
had been taught that fear is dishonorable, 
especially upon the field of battle. 

But self-preservation is the first law of 
nature. Each man's subconscious mind is 
concerned, not with patriotism nor any other 
modern innovation, but with the sole busi- 
ness of self-preservation and self-expression 
for that individual. 

Refusing To Run 

^ These men refused to run or to be con- 
sciously afraid. But the subconscious was 
afraid and reacted with fear to that danger 
exactly as the hair of a cat rises when a dog 
comes near, and as a bird's heart beats 
wildly when the cat approaches. 

The greatest conflict came in the conscious- 
ness of these soldiers who had the traits of 
conscious courage and self-preservation most 
highly developed. These were precisely the 
men who suffered most from shell-shock. 
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Finding a Road For Flight 

<I Their conscious minds refused to harbor 
cowardice, but the subconscious, always 
ready to take us out of a reality that is too 
terrible to be borne, developed a disease that 
removed the men from reality, from danger 
and even from a realization of the horrors 
around them. 

It is a matter of history now that when the 
steamers carrying shell-shocked men were 
torpedoed and the patients flung into the 
water, almost every man recovered his sight, 
hearing, reason or whatever it was he had 
lost — all through the subconscious powers 
which gave him the diseases in the first place. 

The Explanation 

<I "The subconscious minds of these men," 
said a leading New York physician, " recog- 
nized in the torpedoing of the boat a new 
danger from which shell-shock could not 
save them — a danger, in fact, wherein every 
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fiber of that organism must fight for its life. 
So the lost senses returned. 

"The subconscious mind is the miracle 
mind of man! " 

Dreams are the most frequent and the 
least harmful of these " flights from reality/ ' 
Invalidism, hypochondria, drunkenness, 
drug-taking, all forms of neuroses and sui- 
cide itself, are but the different roads 
which different types and temperaments 
under differing conditions, take to get away 
from life-as-it-is. 

Drugs and Dream- Worlds 

<I In all these the conscious mind relaxes, 
forgets the troubles of the day, the dis- 
appointments, the hurts, the wounds — and 
reverts to temporary peace. 

With the drugging or putting to sleep of 
the conscious mind the individual ceases to 
think. He reverts to that much more ancient 
and pleasurable thing — feeling. 
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His modern, civilized brain, which is yet 
so new it finds the struggle difficult, "goes 
off shift" and the subconscious mind — 
primitive, powerful, pleasing and pacifying 
— takes charge. 

He ceases to deal with abstract thoughts 
or ideas 33 33 

He revels in the mental pictures sup- 
plied by the subconscious from its endless 
"morgue" of symbols. 

Psychology of Movie Popularity 

<I The real reason for the popularity of the 
modern motion picture is the fact that it 
appeals to an age-old instinct, an ancient 
psychological habit of the human race— the 
habit of dreaming in pictures. 

Every person subconsciously recognizes 
in the motion picture the same kind of 
activity he has engaged in every time he 
dreamed a dream. Your dreams are your 
personal, private movie shows. 
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What is a " Good Movie ? " 

flf An even deeper significance of the 
popularity of the moving picture lies in the 
fact that it furnishes in the lives of the dis- 
appointed, the depressed, the discouraged, 
the worried and the ailing, exactly the same 
relief from reality as do the dreams in our 
sleep — but in a lesser degree. 

People unconsciously prove this by measur- 
ing every moving picture according to its 
ability to grip and interest them; in other 
words, to make them forget reality. 

When one says he did not enjoy a certain 
moving picture he is unconsciously saying 
that, for some reason, it did not take him 
out of reality. 

Why Tastes Differ 

<I The fact that there are different types of 
people, each requiring something different 
to take him out of the troubles of everyday, 
accounts for the fact that what one calls " a 
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great picture " is called " absolutely no good " 
by someone else. 

We unconsciously make every moving 
picture fill the pleasure-requirement of the 
dream in another vital respect — by auto- 
matically visualizing ourselves in the role 
of the hero or heroine. We then live the whole 
story vicariously, with the action revolving 
around ourselves. 

To Test Yourself 

<I The surest way to attain health is to 
renovate the mind. One way to know whether 
yours is building for health and happiness 
or for distress and disease, is to watch your 
own mental movies — in your day-dreams 
and the dreams of your sleep — measuring and 
estimating their meaning according to the 
standards laid down in this lesson. 

If destructive emotions pervade your sleep- 
dreams these same emotions are disturbing 
your waking life and in turn your health. 
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If you are constantly trying to escape 
reality you are in danger, mentally and phy- 
sically. Instead of attempting to sneak out 
the back door, walk out through the front, into 
the facts of your life, and begin to change 
them in accordance with the last lesson in 
this course. This and this only will perform 
mental miracles for you. 



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We live together years and years, 

And leave unsounded still 
Each other s springs of hopes and fears, 

Each other's depths of will. 

— Lord Houghton. 



Lesson V 



Love, Courtship and Marriage 

OVING and being 
loved is the supre- 
mest human expe- 
rience. Under its 
magic influence we 
become changed 
beings — happier, 
stronger, sweeter, 
better. Without it 
we wither, weaken 
and disintegrate. 
Its effect on health and achievement is 
immeasurable. Many have attained mediocre 
success without visible lovers, but none ever 
achieved greatness without a great love. It 
might almost be said that none save great 
lovers have scaled the heights. 

This does not mean that the great love 
of a life must necessarily be for or from one 
of the other sex, though these are the most 
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powerful and productive loves possible to 
man 33 33 

Nor does it assume that the loved one 
must be a flesh-and-blood creature. 

The ideal whom many adore in secret and 
whose prototype is never found in real life, 
often serves greater purposes than any living 
lover 33 33 

"Ideal" Lovers 

<J Very idealistic, very sensitive, very repres- 
sive types seldom find mates as beautiful, 
refined, sympathetic or understanding as 
they demand, and this accounts for the fact 
that these are the very types which most 
often remain unmated, while their opposites 
marry early and often. 

14 No one lives who is not in love, all the 
time, with a person, either real or ideal, " says 
Wilfrid Lay. 44 In many men and women 
this ideal personality is the only one loved, 
but often loved subconsciously, while for 
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others there is also a consciously loved or 
admired real person. 

" How to unite the conscious and uncon- 
scious love, so frequently at variance in the 
same soul, and center it upon one person of 
the opposite sex, becomes therefore a great 
problem of life today/ ' 

Love and Ego 

<I In civilized human beings the love-urge is 
second to the ego-urge. In many it appears 
to take precedence of the direct ego-urge, 
though it must not be forgotten that love 
for an individual is always, and to a far 
greater extent than the lover realizes, an 
indirect expression of the ego. 

To be loved is gratifying to the ego of every 
individual, regardless of whether he has ever 
seen or ever will see the one who loves him. 

To love is to know a new power, to sense 
unplumbed depths in one's own soul, to 
realize his own strength, to express his spirit. 
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The Power of Love 

<J So powerful is the effect of love that, though 
loving and being loved by one of the other 
sex is life's profoundest experience, to love 
and be loved by a friend, a parent, a follower, 
a child or even a dumb animal, is uplifting, 
strengthening, consoling. 

This has been proven in countless cases, 
such as have come within the range of your 
own observation. 

You wonder why certain men and women 
become so deeply attached to a dog, a bird, 
a cat or other pet. But to the student of 
Mental Analysis there is nothing strange 
in this phenomenon. 

Love-Substitutes 

<I Every individual craves personal love from 
some one, and to give out his own. 

When, for any reason, he is unable to find 
a human being sufficiently similar to his ideal, 
to love and be loved by, he seeks a substitute 
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in whatever other creature appeals to him 
most 33 33 

Rather than being indicative of a less high 
evolution this often indicates a higher-than- 
average nature on the part of the pet-loving 
person 33 33 

It is well known that cruel, selfish people 
seldom care for animals. It is equally well 
known that those who are kind to animals are 
gentle, refined, sensitive, idealistic — in short, 
highly evolved men and women. 

These two facts are so universally known 
that when a motion picture introduces a 
character by letting you see him kick a dog 
or mistreating any animal you know he is 
the villain. 

But when sweetness of nature, kindness 
of heart and goodness in general are to be 
pictured, the camera tells it all to you in a 
flash by showing the character petting or 
playing with some birds, lambs, dogs, kittens 
or horses. 

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A Cartoonist's Canary 

<I One of the most beautiful, brilliant and 
famous young women in America is the 
cartoonist, Fay King, of whose hands we 
have spoken in " Realizing On Your Per- 
sonality/ ' Spirituality and gentleness of 
heart distinguish all her work. 

In her room at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 
New York City, is her pet canary "Mike," 
whom she has had for ten years and whose 
imaginary sayings are familiar to the millions 
who see MissKing's stories and cartoons every 
day in the leading newspapers of the country. 

Bill Hart's devotion to his beloved horse 
" Pinto " and Mary Pickford's to her big 
Danes are stronger proofs than even press 
agents can produce, of the natural goodness 
and inner refinement of these famous figures. 

Freud's Sex Theory 

<& The Freudian theory that all our activities 
have a sexual significance is not only dis- 

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proved by the ordinary facts of our own every- 
day lives, but further disproved by the study 
of the human instincts. 

Sex is a fundamental instinct and as such 
wields the great influence over our lives which 
any basic instinct wields. 

But that it pervades our personal universe 
to the extent ascribed to it by the Viennese 
school seems scarcely possible, even when we 
allow the wide latitude and admit the great 
self-ignorance which the first psychoanalysts 
suggested 33 33 

Sex Not First 

<I In fact, measured by their effect upon our 
lives, a large group of instincts takes pre- 
cedence of the sex instinct in the life of the 
average human being. 

That there is a period, during adolescence, 
when the instinct of sex dominates our 
thoughts, feelings and actions, is undeniable. 

But that that period of intense preoccupa- 
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tion with sex is of short duration is also 
undeniable. In the normal individual it is 
ordinarily not more than five years. 

Even in the less-than-average lifetime there 
are, before it arrives and after it passes, some 
forty years when the instincts of assimila- 
tion, pugnacity, egoism and self-expression, 
— singly or combined — far overshadow the 
influence of the sex instinct. 

Primitive Sex Symbols 

^f With due respect to Freud, who has done 
so much to awaken mankind to its great 
subconscious forces, and whose contributions 
to the human sciences are immeasurable, 
he gives (or so it seems to some of us) undue 
weight to the ancient sex symbols of primitive 
peoples 33 33 

It is not unlikely that instead of these 

symbols running inward toward sex as the 

spokes of a wheel run into the hub, these 

sexual symbols were primitive attempts to 

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picture, in the only language they knew, 
higher and non-sexual cravings. 

Not only do we know that we have mani- 
fold and mighty impulses which are not 
related even remotely to sex, but we know 
that love itself is by no means wholly sexual 
— even the love between the sexes. 

Love's Lure 

<I The lure of love goes far beyond and far 
higher than sex lure, as we see in that greatest 
example of human devotion — mother-love. 
Every creature desires to be loved — and 
often to love and be loved by those with whom 
he cares to associate nothing sexual, even 
remotely S& S& 

Love Cures 

<R Alienists, physicians and psychologists are 
all aware of the healing power of love and the 
harming power of hate. We have seen many 
a patient cured of a disease which medical 
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science could not touch, by the patient's falling 
suddenly in love. And we have seen stalwart 
ones succumb to all manner of maladies when 
thwarted in a much-desired affection. 

So all-powerful and so all-pervading is the 
demand for love and the desire to give love 
that every child, so scientists say, is in love 
with some one by the time he is three years 
old. From that time to the moment of death 
he is in love with some real or ideal person 
upon whom he showers, in imagination if not 
in real life, the flowers of his spirit. 

Parents and Children 

<$ Being instinctive, intense and impulsive, 
this love-urge, like every other, demands 
expression and, like every other, is forced to 
express itself in its environment. 

The only environment the child knows is 
the home. The only people from whom it can 
demand love and draw love unto itself are 
the people in its environment. 
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To the average child this means his parents. 
They are the objects upon which he showers 
his own instinctive love-energy, and he tries, 
with all the subconscious powers he possesses, 
to induce them to love him in return. 

None of this is reasoned nor " thought 
out" in any conscious sense, but is done 
inevitably and unerringly just as the new- 
born babe, consciously knowing nothing 
whatever, yet subconsciously knows how to 
satisfy hunger at its mother's breast. 

The Real " First Love " 

^ Under normal home conditions, the child 
finds, ready-made, the ideal situation for the 
growth and expression of his instinctive love- 
urge 33 53 

His parents, craving always more love 
themselves and craving always to give more 
love, respond not only unreservedly to the 
child's demand for love, but encourage its 
further development by doing all the things 

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which lure love from any one anywhere at 
any time since the world began. 

Love begets love. It is practically impossible 
to resist people who truly, deeply love us and 
who self-sacrificingly, unselfishly continue to 
shower it upon us. 

Thousands of marriages are consummated 
every year as a result of one of the pair having 
loved the other into loving him. 

Between the child and the parent there are 
no barriers. Everything conduces to the 
encouragement, enhancement and full ex- 
pression of love — to the child from the parent, 
from the child to the parents, and back 
again in an accentuating circle. 

A New Discovery 

<I It is small wonder then that by the time 
he is three, every child is deeply, intensely in 
love with his parents. 

In many instances, this first great love is 
never excelled in adult life. 
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Thousands of men and woman fail to find, 
when grown up, any love-situation to com- 
pare with this original one, and remain 
single, without ever realizing the underlying 
reason 33 3& 

" Blind Love" 

<I With every condition ideal and ripe for 
love on the part of the parent and the child, 
and with every tradition backing up the 
parents' love for their children, it is inevitable 
that parents and children should develop 
a devotion for each other that is all the more 
intense because all the rest of the world blocks 
love. For this very reason it is inevitable that 
this concentrated love should sometimes sub- 
consciously exceed the bounds of cold reason. 
It is always a surprise to outsiders to see the 
blindne c s of parental devotion. It is equally 
surprising, looked at from the standpoint of 
actual facts, to see the blind faith of the child 
in his weak or unworthy parents. 

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But all this is inevitable. We love those 
who love us. We believe in those who love us, 
even after we are old enough to know better. 
So it is hardly to be expected that the young 
child should refrain from pouring out its 
instinctive affection upon the parents who 
comfort, feed and shelter it and who shower 
upon it the affections it demands. 

CEdipus and Electra 

<R It is true in most cases (for reasons entirely 
apart from sexual ones) that the daughter 
loves the father more than she loves the 
mother, and that the boy loves his mother 
more than he loves his father. 

But that the sexual element predominates 
even unconsciously in this relationship is as 
false as it is unfair. And it is proven in this 
fact: that at least one- third of all girls love 
their mothers more, while more than a third 
of all boys love their fathers best. " CEdipus' ' 
and " Electra' ' are indeed myths. 
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What Determines The Child's Love 

<I Which parent will the child love more? If 
we need any further proof of the fact that the 
ego-urge is more powerful than the sex-urge 
we find it in the answer to this question. 

For, the child will love most that parent 
who most appeals to his ego, regardless of 
sex 53 53 

The child will center its greatest love 
exactly where the rest of us do — on those 
who are most devoted to him. 

If the father is more strict, more unyield- 
ing than the mother the daughter will love 
her mother best, and the greater warmth of 
her devotion to her mother will be in pro- 
portion to the differences in their treatment 
of her 53 53 

For instance, if a father is extremely severe 
with his children and the mother almost as 
much so, all the children, regardless of sex, 
will love their mother more, though not 
much more than their father. 

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If she is the opposite extreme from the 
father — if she gives them their way, pets, 
loves, fondles and forgives them where he 
punishes and tyrannizes — all the children will 
adore their mother and (whether or not they 
ever admit it even to themselves) subcon- 
sciously dislike their father. Regardless of 
how right he was or how wrong and weak the 
mother was, this will invariably be true. 

On the other hand, if the mother is austere, 
undemonstrative and a hard taskmaster, her 
children may have great respect for her and 
consciously admire her more than a worth- 
less father. But if that father indulges them, 
and shows more affection — though he be a 
drunkard, thief or murderer — still will all 
the children love him best. 

And they will continue to do so just so long 
as he is the more indulgent parent. 

This love is from the subconscious, and 
the subconscious, as has been stated before, 
knows nothing of these modern standards of 
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conduct. It deals with the expression of the 
individual. It is for whatever and whoever 
serves his instinctive cravings. 

Parental Partiality 

<I The accuracy of all this can be proved at 
any moment by any person from his own 
experience S3 33 

Regardless of whether he is willing to con- 
fess it or not, he knows that the parent he 
truly feels the greatest affection for is that 
one who was the more kind, more loving and 
more indulgent with him. 
If, as often happens, the severe parent selects 
one of his children for special favors — if he 
shows partiality to that child to a greater 
extent than does the other parent — that 
particular child will begin to prefer him to 
the other parent, whereas the recognition of 
this partiality by the other children will make 
all the others withdraw farther and farther 
from the father and nearer to the mother. 

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a— j 

Fathers and Daughters 

<I Here we come to the secret back of all the 
father-daughter and mother-son complexes. 
And like most secrets it proves upon investi- 
gation to be a perfectly simple thing after all! 

It is true that most daughters love their 
fathers best simply and solely because most 
fathers indulge their daughters more than 
they indulge their sons. 

In other words then, because they are con- 
scious of the difference in sex and have been 
trained to protect women, fathers more often 
do for their daughters than for their sons 
the things that inevitably win love from 
any one at any time under any conditions. 

Let a father who has thus won his 
daughter's love suddenly begin to favor his 
son while the mother, who has been partial 
to the son, suddenly commences to show 
extreme favoritism to the daughter — and 
both these children, after a few days or weeks 
of suffering and uncertainty, will interchange 
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their affections and go on just as before with 
their new loves. 

Mothers and Sons 

Q It is true that most sons love their mothers 
more than they love their fathers and for the 
same reason as that stated above. In all 
such instances the mother has shown more love 
and indulgence to the son than did the father. 

Here, again, we come to the effect of tra- 
dition. Just as the father indulged the 
daughter because of the traditional protec- 
tion of women by men, he is inclined to be 
strict with his son because tradition says 
sons must be made to stand alone. 

But the old subconscious knows naught 
of these things which have come recently 
into the world. All the boy's subconscious 
knows is that he loves his mother best. 

His affection for her is enhanced by her 
devotion to him — a devotion in which she 
too is the creature of tradition. 
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Women are expected to minister to males. 
Her son is a young male, a wee man. To him 
she naturally and habitually tends to give 
the best of things, and he inevitably and 
automatically to love her best. 

Love's Tragedy 

<I All this is delightful to the child. He loves 
to love and be loved. His childhood is more 
wonderful by far than that of the children 
who, for any reason, do not receive this 
unstinted affection. But he often pays a 
tremendous price for it in later years. 

To, the boy who loves his mother, that 
mother becomes the epitome, the symbol of 
all that is desirable in love. 

As a man he can love only those women 
who bear a real or imaginary resemblance 
to her 33 53 

If he can find no woman who seems to him 
at all like his beloved mother he will never 
fall in love. 

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The more superior the mother and tne 
more deeply and exclusively he loved her, the 
less likelihood will there be of his finding 
any one resembling her. 

Unconscious Love 

<& Proof of how deeply submerged are some 
of our strongest impulses is seen in the fact 
that all this is unknown to the individual 
in whom it is operating so strongly. 

He has never been consciously in love with 
his mother and may even imagine he would 
prefer women who are very different from her, 
but the fact remains that those who are dif- 
ferent from her never appeal to him, while he 
will fall in love at first sight with one who 
recapitulates the mother-symbol. 

The daughter who loved her father may 
never know why she can not find it in her 
heart to marry any man. The real reason — 
that she is unconsciously still in love with 
her father, or rather with the image of him 

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which she carries in her subconscious — is 
usually inconceivable to her. 

She may care little or nothing for him now. 
He may be the kind of man whom her mature 
judgment and lifelong training tell her is 
beneath her affection; she may know he has 
always been beneath it; but it will not alter 
that subconscious symbol. 

The man she loves is not her father as he 
is today, as he looks today, nor is it her father 
himself whom she loves. 

Image-Love 

^[What she loves is the image of him — 
face, features, ungrayed hair, smiles, gentle- 
ness and all — that he was in her babyhood 
days S3 S3 

She loves in men only those things which 
her father seemed to be in that far-off time. 
She admires only those men who have the 
traits her father seemed to have. 

She will never truly love any man who does 
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not, in some or several particulars, remind 
that subconscious mind of hers of this 
Father-image. 

As in the man's case, this woman seldom 
dreams what it is that determines her attitude 
toward men. She was not consciously in love 
with her father, any more than he was con- 
sciously in love with his mother. 

Love Is Subconscious 

<J "What in the world did he see in her?" 
and " How did she ever happen to fall in 
love with him?" are questions the world 
often asks 33 33 

The real answer is never forthcoming 
because nobody knows it, least of all the 
person whose taste is being discussed. 

Such a man may explain to you for hours 
at a time the many delightful traits he l ' saw in 
her," but the fact of the matter is that what 
he saw in her was his original love-image. 

If as a child he was tenderly cared for and 
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loved by some other woman because of his 
mother's death or absence, it will be her 
image as he loved it then which he will seek. 

The Subconscious, Unconscious Seeker 

<§ In all this it must be borne in mind that 
the person need not necessarily look like 
the loved parent, for the reason (as has 
been stated in earlier lessons) that the sub- 
conscious tends to take, not the whole, but 
a part or section of a thing and let it stand 
for the total. 

There is no knowing what element it will 
take as the symbol of the whole (much 
depending, as we saw in the "Emotions" 
lesson, on the emotional intensity accom- 
panying isolated incidents). 

So there is no way of determining, without 
a mental analysis, either by one's self or an 
analyst, what characteristic was chosen by 
the subconscious as the symbol of the loved 
parent 33 33 

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A Self-Test 

<I The nearest one can come to knowing what 
symbolizes this parent in his mind, if he does 
not already know, or if he can not be fully 
analyzed by an expert, is to ask himself this 
question: 

What is the first thing that comes into my 
mind when I speak the name of my favorite 
parent? 33 33 

The difficulty with this question is that, 
having read this question before putting it 
to yourself, your conscious mind tends to 
short-circuit the real answer. 

It therefore tends to throw the switch on it, 
as it were, and deliver the answer in accord- 
ance with your conscious preferences, rather 
than the facts. 

But if the question were put to you by an 
analyst without your knowing its signifi- 
cance, your answer would, under proper con- 
ditions, come direct from your subconscious 
mind 33 33 

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Testing For Preferences 

<I If by any chance you are still in doubt as 
to which of your parents you loved more you 
can test yourself by the following: 

Which one do I think of first when recall- 
ing my parents? 

Under an analyst your spontaneous answer 
to this would be the name of the parent you 
had loved best. 

There are several reasons why it is not easy 
for us to analyze ourselves, especially in the 
matters referred to in this lesson. 

The first one is that when we know the 
significance and meaning of the question the 
surface mind almost invariably intercepts 
the true answer before it comes to the thresh- 
hold of consciousness, and substitutes one in 
keeping with its own standards. 

A Pair of Brown Eyes 

<I An illustration of this was seen a short 
time ago in a woman of middle age who had 

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had a most lonely life. She had been in love 
but once, and then with a man who was 
already married. 

She criticised herself for years for having 
cared for another woman's husband, though 
she had no overt acts to be ashamed of, and 
in fact had never indicated to the man nor to 
any one else that she cared for him. 

She left the city where he lived, but worked 
in uncongenial positions, with uncongenial 
people and, instead of caring less for him, 
felt that she was caring more as the years 
went on. 

At last it so happened that this man not 
only moved to the city where she was but was 
employed in the same establishment as her- 
self 33 33 

She was determined to rid herself of what 
she had all these years termed her " unholy 
affection/ ' 33 33 

She had no real respect for this man, who 
was mentally and morally her inferior. But 
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t * 

his dark brown eyes made her forget every- 
thing save her love for him. 

Analysis showed that she had really loved 
her shiftless father because he had been most 
indulgent to her in her childhood. 

As she grew older and realized his mental 
and moral weaknesses she ceased to respect 
him and was not really sorry when he passed 
on 33 33 

She lived with and supported her mother 
who had suffered much at the father's hands. 

So fully did she respect her mother's 
superior qualities that she supposed she 
cared more for her than she had ever cared 
for the father. 

Two tests brought out the fact that her 
father had dark brown eyes and that dark 
brown eyes of a particular expression were to 
her the symbol not only of her father but of 
all love 33 33 

The similarity of expression in the married 
man's brown eyes, his shiftlessness, and 
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moral and mental weaknesses, all combined 
to revive the old symbol. 

When fully convinced that it was not the 
married man she loved but the symbols of 
which he reminded her, she ceased instantly 
to care for him. 

A Soft Voice 

<I A physician who had struggled for many 
years with a growing dislike for his wife was 
analyzed S& 5& 

He had consciously refused to display this 
aversion or encourage it. It had assumed 
such proportions, however, and was arousing 
such dangerous emotions that he feared not 
only for his health but for the future of their 
family 33 33 

It was found that when he was twenty- 
eight he had had an accident which it was 
feared would make him permanently blind. 

He spent nine weeks in a hospital with his 
eyes bandaged. 

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Long before they were unbandaged he had 
fallen in love with the waitress who brought 
the meals to his bedside, though he could not 
explain why. 

When he saw her for the first time he found 
she did not look at all as he expected her to. 
But that did not prevent his marrying her 
two weeks afterward — as soon as they were 
sure his eyes would be normal again. 

Analysis showed that what he had really 
fallen in love with was the girl's voice. It was 
low and sweet like that of his mother whom 
he had subconsciously loved but who had 
been dead many years. He pictured her face, 
before he saw it, as that of his mother. 

By the time they removed the bandages 
from his eyes he was so deeply in love with 
the symbol-voice he forgave the difference in 
the face 33 33 

If the mother's face instead of her voice 
had been the love-symbol in his mind he 
would not have loved this girl. 
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But her face was secondary and thus 
relinquished, when necessary, from the 
ensemble 33 33 

The mother's voice was the real symbol 
of love to him and any woman with this 
voice would have appealed to him. 

Before he had been married a week he 
realized that this woman's voice was the only 
thing she possessed in common with his 
beloved mother. The wife was, in fact, the 
almost exact opposite of the mother, most 
of whose traits he unconsciously loved. 

Their marriage had been to him one dis- 
illusionment after another. His wife was 
unlearned where his mother had been highly 
educated. She was uncouth and crude where 
his mother had been refined; rough, out- 
spoken and quarrelsome, where the mother 
had been amiability and gentility itself. 

He tried to accustom himself to her, to 
overlook, to convince himself that this woman 
who loved him and bore his children was not 

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to blame. He had been brought up to believe 
that a husband and father had no right, 
under any circumstances, to think of himself; 
that his family deserved his time, strength 
and love, regardless of everything. 

To escape from the hated reality he drank 
much coffee, then other stimulants, and when 
we met him had been taking drugs some time. 

It was very difficult for this man who had 
treated others for so long in his practice to 
relax sufficiently and confide sufficiently to 
the analyst to give her the story of the real 
(though hitherto unrealized reason) for his 
falling in love with this woman so far beneath 
him 33 33 

It was not easy for him to admit that 
things medicine could not touch could be 
brought out into the sunlight and cured by 
mental analysis. But such was the case. 

He was shown the exact facts — that he had 
not turned away from his wife for the reason 
that he had never loved her. 
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He had married what he supposed was a 
woman like his mother and she was utterly 
different 53 33 

His years of brave struggle to keep from 
hurting her — a large husky woman — had 
resulted in almost wrecking his own much 
more refined organism. 

A recognition of the facts and the restora- 
tion of his self-respect enabled him within 
a few months to resume his practice and give 
up his drug habit. 

The Brownings 

<I This love between mothers and sons and 
fathers and daughters, with its far-flung 
influence upon human lives, is seen in almost 
every great love of history. 

But nowhere is it more strikingly illus- 
trated than in that most illustrious love- 
union of modern times — between Elizabeth 
Barrett and Robert Browning. 

We will quote direct from its sympathetic 
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and poetic raconteur, Elbert Hubbard, in 
his ''Little Journeys:" 

11 Robert Browning's mother was a woman 
of fine feeling and much poetic insight. She 
knew good books. The mother and son 
moused in books together and, according 
to Mrs. Sutherland Orr, his biographer, this 
love of mother and son took upon itself the 
nature of a passion. 

"She was an invalid Shut-In, reclining 
always on a couch. 

" The love of Robert Browning for Eliza- 
beth Barrett was a revival and a renewal of the 
condition of tenderness and sympathy that 
existed between Browning and his mother. 

" There certainly was a strange and marked 
resemblance in the characters of Elizabeth 
Barrett and the mother of Robert Browning; 
and to many this fully accounts for the 
instant affection that Browning felt toward 
the occupant of the 'darkened room/ when 
first they met. 

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" It also accounts for the answering love 
Elizabeth Barrett gave him that first moment. 
Robert Browning was, on first sight, much 
more the father-type than the poet. His 
frame was compact and strong — like her 
father's. His poise, his protective power sym- 
bolized the things her father had meant to 
her in her childhood days when he was all 
love for her. 

" Edward Barrett had a sort of fierce, 
passionate, jealous affection for his daughter 
Elizabeth. He set himself the task of educating 
her from her very babyhood. He was her con- 
stant companion, her tutor, adviser, friend. 

" The child's health broke. From her 
thirteenth year she appears to us like a 
beautiful spirit. 

" But she did not much complain. She had 
a will as strong as her father's, and felt a 
Spartan pride in doing all the studying he 
asked and a little more. She read, translated, 
thought 33 33 

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11 To spur her on and to stimulate her, he 
published several volumes of her poems. 

11 Came a time when Mr. Barrett was 
jealous of his daughter — of the fame that 
was taking her away from him. The passion 
of father for daughter, of mother for son — 
there is often something loverlike in it — a 
deal of whimsy! 

" Edward Barrett's daughter — she of the 
raven curls and gentle ways — was reaching a 
point where her father's love was not her life. 

" A good way to drive love away is to be 
jealous. He had seen it coming years before; 
he had brooded over it ; the calamity was upon 
him. Her fame was growing; some one called 
her the Shakespeare of women. 

11 Edward Barrett scowled. He accused 
her foolishly and falsely of perverseness. He 
attempted to dictate to her — she must use 
this ink or that. Why? Because he said so. 
He quarrelled with her to ease the love-hurt 
that was smarting in his heart. 
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11 Mr. Browning, who had heard of Miss 
Barrett and admired her work, wrote asking 
permission to call upon her. 

" Miss Barrett replied that her father 
would not allow it, neither would the doctor 
or nurse; that she lived in a darkened room. 
She added, ' There is nothing to see in me.' 

" But this repulse only made Mr. Brown- 
ing want to see her the more. He appealed to 
her cousin, an elderly gentleman who was 
the only person allowed to call. 

" The cousin arranged it. He timed the 
hour when Mr. Barrett was down town, and 
the nurse and doctor safely out of the way, 
and they called on the invalid prisoner in the 
darkened room. 

11 They did not stay long, but when they 
went away Robert Browning trod on air. 
The beautiful girl-like face, in its frame of dark 
curls, lying back among the pillows, haunted 
him like a shadow. She was slipping away. 
He would love her back to life and light! 
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" And so Robert Browning told her all 
this shortly afterward 

" She grew better. 

" And soon we find her getting up and 
throwing wide the shutters. It was no longer 
a darkened room. The sunlight came dancing 
through the windows. 

" The doctor was indignant; the nurse 
resigned. Of course Mr. Barrett was not taken 
into confidence, and no one asked his consent. 
Why should they? She was thirty-five — and 
her father a man who could never understand. 

" So one fine day when the coast was clear, 
the couple went over to Saint Marylebone 
Church and were married. The bride went 
home alone — could walk all right now — and 
it was a week before her husband saw her, 
because he would not be a hypocrite and go 
ring the doorbell and ask if Miss Barrett was 
home; and of course if he had asked for Mrs. 
Robert Browning, no one would have known 
whom he wanted to see. 

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4 4 But at the end of a week the bride stole 
down the stairs while the family was at dinner 
and met her lover-husband there on the street 
corner where the mail-box is. No one missed 
the runaways until the next day, and then 
the bride and groom were safely in France, 
writing letters back asking forgiveness and 
blessings 

44 Health came back, and joy and peace and 
perfect love were theirs. But it was joy bought 
with a price — Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
had forfeited the love of her father. Her letters 
written to him came back unopened . . . .He 
declared she was dead 

11 We regret that this man, so strong and 
manly in many ways, could not be reconciled 
to this exalted love. 

14 Why could he not have followed the 
example of John Kenyon who had always 
loved her and who, it is said, did not smile 
for two years after her elopement? "..-.. 

The answer is to be found in human psy- 
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chology which today shows us that many 
who think they love some one are really only 
loving themselves! 

When you truly love you want the adored 
one to have not you necessarily but what- 
ever he or she desires. 

That John Kenyon truly loved Elizabeth 
Barrett was proven when in his will he left 
all he had — fifty thousand dollars — to the 
Brownings, to add the last touch to their 
happiness 53 53 

They were poor but his kindness placed 
them forever beyond financial-fear and gave 
them perfect peace. 

Sex vs. Love 

<& In this ideal mating of the Brownings, as in 
all great loves, it was again proved that it is 
love rather than sex which most human beings 
seek in marriage. 

People seek marriage in proportion as they 
lack love and friendship in their lives. 
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Many a handsome bachelor remains un- 
married not because women do not care for 
him but precisely because they do. 

This satisfies his demand for love without 
the entanglements resultant from wedlock. 

Psychology also explains why, at fifty 
or so, these men finally marry. They are 
beginning to lose their attractiveness, the 
love and friendships of women which have 
substituted for marriage became fewer in 
number and fainter in feeling. 

Such a man awakens to the fact that if he 
is to be supplied with personal affection he 
must find a mate and " settle down." 

Truth About Bachelors 

<I While it is true that many supposedly 
celibate men and women live far different 
lives from what we imagine, it is equally true 
that the attractive, popular type of bachelor 
described usually lives a far more celibate life 
than the sophisticated would believe. 
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We base this statement not only upon 
observation and knowledge of psychology, 
but upon our experience with thousands of 
students throughout the United States. 

Many of these men have stated in private 
analyses (where they can be even more frank 
than with their physician, and where there is 
the fullest understanding and consequent 
tolerance of every human weakness) that 
though they bore the reputation of being 
exceedingly gay, as a matter of fact they lived 
lives of chastity out of preference. 

Many of these men desired an analysis 
largely to find why they preferred to live this 
life instead of the one popularly ascribed to 
them — the kind they also supposed other 
such men lived. 

In many instances such a man has labored 
under the delusion that he was " queer/ ' 
" freakish" or abnormal, and was relieved 
but not surprised when he learned that his 
was not only a perfectly normal but much 
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more prevalent attitude than the world 
realizes 33 33 

It is not the popular man but the unpopu- 
lar one (who gets little or no love from any 
one) who seeks sexual expression and who, 
instead of the celibate life credited to him, 
lives one containing sexual experiences that 
would amaze his unsuspecting friends. 

The Flirtatious Woman 

<$ The same is true of the flirtatious, attractive 
woman — and especially of the supposedly 
dangerous young widow. 

It can not be repeated too often that what 
the human being desires most is not sex 
but love. If love of a personal nature can be 
obtained without sex many there are, in both 
sexes, who much prefer single blessedness to 
mating, and celibacy to sexual expression. 

The attractive woman who can win and 
hold the devotion, attention, affection and 
love of men — to whom they send flowers, 
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candy, books and other gifts — is never the 
sexual creature she is painted. 

This also we know from private analyses 
of thousands of such women. The adulation 
which the ego is always subconsciously craving 
in love is satisfied by these attentions. The 
love-demand is met by the affections of a 
large number of men. Often they feel no 
further need of expression. 

The Female Puritan 

<& It is the quiet, self-effacing, timid, plain 
and outwardly puritanical woman who dwells 
on the matters of sex, searches the libraries 
for sex literature and finds sexual expression 
in the least-suspected paths. 

She it is also who is most easily induced 
to give herself out of wedlock because her 
heart is so starved for love. 

Such a woman, if no longer young, or if of 
the extremely repressed type, often refuses, 
but it is in the face of terrific struggle. 
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She desires not to refuse, more than the 
self-expressive woman can ever know. Her 
will power deserves our utmost respect. 

The Real Unsexuality of Love 

<I All these and myriads of corroborative 
situations, facts and conditions throughout 
all human experience prove conclusively that 
even love is far less crassly sexual than we 
have ever supposed. 

Every human being craves understanding, 
communion and the certainty of intimate 
personal interest. 

We believe the time will come when all 
thinking men and women will recognize that 
the things of sex are resorted to not so much 
for their own sake as because they give the 
surest and completest sense of this deep 
personal intimacy. 

Look in any direction you will, under any 
condition, observe any person or persons of 
any race, nationality, education, belief or 
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training, and you will find what historians 
have always seen but never understood — 
that the instant this personal intimacy is 
fully established the sexual element assumes 
a less important role. 

Once the sexual act has taken place the 
utmost intimacy known to humans is estab- 
lished. The sex urge is, to a far greater degree 
than we have ever dreamed, merely a means 
to this end. 

Having fulfilled its mission it immediately 
takes a secondary place. This again proves 
to us how much more of the ego element 
exists in even the wildest love than we have 
ever recognized.* 

The Passing of Passion 

<I Hundreds of women and men wonder why 
no subsequent sexual experience with the 
same mate ever rises to the heights of the 

* For further elaboration of the ego instinct see " The Human Instincts " 
by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict. 

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first. Many whose mates love them more than 
they did at first, imagine that because passion 
has died, love has flown. 

The exact opposite is more often true. 

Passion is always and invariably self- 
centered, egoistic and wholly self-expressive. 
It can not, by its very nature, awaken or 
exist minus these qualities — any more than 
you can become hungry because another has 
been without food, nor halt your own starva- 
tion by watching him eat. 

To yield one's self without desire as the 
instrument of another's desire, is unselfish 
(though a most dangerous and reprehensible 
kind of unselfishness!) — but to satisfy one's 
own desire is the essence and epitome of self- 
seeking S& 53 

An Old Mystery Solved 

.<! Many a wife and many a husband who 
recognizes this subconsciously withdraws from 
contact with his mate for no other reason 

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than his aversion to being made merely 
an avenue of self-expression for another. 
This again illustrates the all-pervading urge 
of the ego. 

The greater the ego of such a one the more 
certain is he to retreat from his mate when 
his subconscious finally becomes aware of 
the facts. 

He may never suspect the reason for the 
cooling of his ardor. On the other hand it may 
be a fully conscious reaction. 

Sex and Complexes 

<I If he has reached the age or stage of life 
when the sexual urge is less dominant this 
withdrawal and relinquishment of sexual 
expression may have no appreciable effect. 
But if such a one still loves his or her mate 
and is still very much alive sexually, there 
may arise a conflict between the ego instinct 
on one hand (which refuses to adapt itself to 
utilization by another) and the sex instinct 
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(which demands expression and knows noth- 
ing save its own desires). 

In these cases — and there are tens of thou- 
sands of them — conflicts and complexes of 
various kinds arise — always in accordance 
with the type of the individual. 

As time goes on and one finds that his 
mate bears little or no resemblance to his 
ideal-image, he will try to forget, or fight 
his aversion; seek new relationships or sepa- 
rate — depending again upon his type and 
temperament. 

For You 

<I If you were one of a large family of children 
the probabilities are you did not have enough 
parent-love lavished on you exclusively to 
establish a too-vivid love-image. 

If you were brought up by some one 
other than your parents it is not likely that 
you were harmed by a too-intense affection. 

If you grew up in an institution you doubt- 
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less received too little love and were permitted 
to show too little. 

But in any case, this lesson can not fail to 
help you 53 33 

Read it carefully, be frank with your- 
self. Through it you will come ultimately to 
a deeper understanding of your own personal 
problems 53 33 



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V 



Why build these cities glorious 

If MAN unbuilded goes? 
In vain we build the world unless 

The builder also grows. 
We all are blind until we see 

That in the human plan 
Nothing is worth the making 

If it does not make the man. 

— Edwin Markham 



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Lesson VI 



Success Through The 
Subconscious 

UCCESS is, next 
to love, the most 
vital matter in 
one's life, for only 
through success- 
ful accomplish- 
ment of some 
nature can civil- 
ized men and 
women be thor- 
oughly happy. 
Not only does success fulfil a great personal 
need by aiding in the self-expression of the 
individual but through it he contributes to 
the progress of the world. 

These two elements are necessary to the 
happiness of any normal man or woman. 
First, the normal individual desires self- 
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expression. But a close second is his sincere 
desire to help humanity. The latter is not a 
mere margin which he wishes to dispose of 
but a natural demand of his ' ' success instinct/ ' 

Civilized man has two roles and is taught 
early in life what they are. He is himself — 
and himself is ever his primary consideration. 
But he is also a part of society — a tiny section 
in a great mosaic. 

The average individual thinks chiefly of 
that little self-section — not so much because 
he is selfish or narrow but because his own 
troubles, problems and difficulties are so 
great he has little time, energy or thought 
left over to give to the general pattern. 

The greatest result of Mental Analysis is 
that it is helping the individual to untangle 
his own troubles. 

The moment this is done the rest follows. 

He awakens to the needs of his fellows — 

his family's first, then his friends', next his 

acquaintances', and in time, the world's. 

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"The Herd" and Happiness 

<I Every normal human being, to be happy, 
must know that he is a part of the big world. 
One need not be "out in the world" — like 
the father who meets the public in his work — 
in order to have this gratifying realization. 

The loving mother, the understanding 
wife in her little apartment, knows that in 
doing her work she is directly connecting with 
the work of the world through her husband 
— that she is the quartermaster, the Red 
Cross and munition plant behind the lines. 

Subconsciously, every such woman demands 
that her man make a success of his work out 
there in the front trenches, for her sake as well 
as his own. She does not like to feel that all her 
efforts are being expended for a losing army. 

Life at Loose Ends 

9 Many more lives than we realize are ruined 
from a lack of definite connection with the 
world of real work. 

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C =5 

The individual himself (and especially if it 
be a herself) often wonders what is wrong and 
goes through years or a lifetime without real- 
izing that it is the thwarting of this natural 
success instinct which is causing the difficulty. 

The woman who has a home, a husband 
or children will find in them full satisfaction 
of this urge if she happens to belong predomi- 
nantly to one type. 

But if she belongs predominantly to either 
of the other four human types she will never 
find complete self-expression in the care of 
home, husband or even children. 

She, like the men of these types, demands 
direct self-expression. To her some interest 
outside the four walls is essential to happiness . 

Each type always selects the general kind 
of outside interests most appealing to it. 

Women and Work 

<![ Until recent years home and church work 
were the only activities in which women 

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could engage and keep the full admiration 
of the world. 

Then the woman's club was born. Various 
charitable organizations inaugurated and 
backed almost entirely by women came into 
being 33 53 

The prohibition crusade gave thousands 
of women an opportunity to emerge and 
connect with a world-cause. Later the woman 
suffrage movement, for fifty years, gave the 
same opportunity to thousands more. 

Types and Crusades 

<I It will be interesting to you to note how 
each of these crusades — churches, charitable 
organizations, prohibition and woman suf- 
frage — was headed by different biological 
types of women and that the rank and file in 
each consisted chiefly of women of that same 
type 33 33 

The Francis E. Willard type still predomi- 
nates in the W. C. T. U. The Susan B. 
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Anthony type still predominates in the 
National League of Women Voters. 

Whenever a woman of one of these crusades 
joined another it was for the furtherance of 
her real interest, as, for instance, when the 
W. C. T. U. joined the woman suffrage move- 
ment. It did so, not so much for woman 
suffrage per se as because it was convinced 
that woman suffrage would help prohibition. 

When the Susan B. Anthony type joined 
the W. C. T. U. it was largely for the purpose 
of gaining co-operation in the suffrage cause.* 

Type and the Subconscious 

1R These facts of type-preference were obtained 
by four years' first hand observation of thou- 
sands of women in both these organizations 
throughout the United States. 

Many other surveys show that women, 
like men, must have self-expression and that 

* For further elaboration of types see " The Five Human Types " by 
Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict. 

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each invariably chooses, out of the possi- 
bilities in his or her environment, the particu- 
lar kind of activity always preferred by his 
type 33 33 

He chooses more or less automatically 
because his choice is predetermined by his 
subconscious. But his subconscious is largely 
determined by his type. This because the 
subconscious mind is the hereditary mind — 
the mind of instinct with which man is born. 
What he does after he gets here will affect its 
content but not its predominant trends. 

Every individual of every type, tempera- 
ment and combination, desires self-expres- 
sion through some kind of outgoing activity. 

He will be content, congenial and construc- 
tive only in those endeavors which aid in the 
attainment of his supreme subconscious wish. 

Three Classes 

<J If his supreme wish is to spend his life in 
some particular kind of activity, regardless 

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of its tasks or drudgeries, and if he concen- 
trates on this activity, he will become a genius. 
But if his choice of a vocation is secondary 
to his wish — that is, if it is selected only as 
an adjunct to the wish — an aid and abetter 
of something he desires more — and he gets 
into such a vocation, he will be in it only 
one of the many big successes. 

If he spends his life in a kind of work which 
calls for traits which he has only in a small 
degree, he will be mediocre. 

If his work demands activities that are the 
opposite of his natural ones he will be a 
failure 33 33 

The Subconscious Sentinel 

<I In each case the subconscious mind regis- 
ters feelings for or against certain vocations 
and for or against specific lines of work 
contemplated by the individual. 

Your preference for or prejudice against 
any line of work is not an accident nor a 
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mystery. It is an emotion based in the sub- 
conscious unreasoning feeling that this voca- 
tion would help or hinder the materialization 
of your supreme wish. 

It automatically votes against everything 
which would interfere with your life's desires 
and for everything of any nature (including 
vocation) that aids and abets them. 

The Genius 

<$ The child destined to become a genius has, 
like every other, a supreme subconscious 
wish. But this wish differs from that of the 
average child in two things — intensity and 
content 33 S& 

The supreme subconscious wish of the vast 
majority of men, women and children is to 
possess things. 

The supreme wish of the genius-child is 
to do a certain kind of thing. 

The average supreme wish, though it may 
be fired with the deepest emotion of which 
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that individual is capable, is much less intense 
and furious than that of the genius-child. 

These two lead to the third element — 
opportunity — as inevitably as the desire 
and ability to sing point the song bird 
instinctively to an opportunity to unburden 
his silvery throat. 

Requisites of Genius 

<I So we find that the requisites for the 
making of a genius are: 

1. A desire to do a certain kind of thing, 
regardless of good or bad consequences. 

2. That this desire shall constitute the 
one supreme, subconscious wish of his life, in 
comparison with which all else is insignificant. 

3. That this supreme wish to do a certain 
kind of thing shall be so intense as to allow 
no room for feelings of doubt. 

These things and these only have invari- 
ably differentiated the genius from other men 
and women. 

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These intense inner urges compel the 
genius to find opportunity for doing the 
thing he wants to do. He has no peace until 
he does it. Once started at it, satisfaction 
permeates his spirit, saturates his soul. He 
is at the business for which he was created; 
he has found himself. 

Finding Himself 

<I In this supremest of human achievements 
— meeting and working with one's self face 
to face — the genius forgets all else. 

Is it to be wondered at that such enthusi- 
asm produces great things? 

Other men give but a fraction of themselves 
to their work and none of their subconscious 
selves to work they dislike. The subconscious 
of the genius is in tune with the world. 

Any man who wants to do a thing with the 
same intensity, the same selfless, concen- 
trated determination can make of himself 
a genius S& 33 

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But the average man does not want to do; 
he only wants to have without doing. 

He is always expecting to " put one over" 
on Fate 53 3& 

It can't be done. 

Are You a Genius ? 

<I " A genius is one who can not be kept away 
from his work." If nothing can keep you away 
from yours, if you love its toil and drudgery 
so much it is play, this means that to do this 
thing is your supreme subconscious wish. 
Whatever you supremely, subconsciously wish 
can and does come true, as you will see in 
the last lesson of this course. 

The Successful 

<R Those who are not geniuses but the next- 
highest — the big successes in any line — are 
those whose supreme wish is to achieve a 
certain goal and who are willing to do any- 
thing honorable to reach it, no matter how 
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hard, how humiliating or how difficult the 
necessary sacrifices. 

Such a man or woman will become ulti- 
mately a supreme success. For him, as for the 
genius, there is no question of opportunity. 
The world is full of opportunity and he knows 
it. Such a man says 

" With doubt and dismay you are smitten? 

You think there's no chance for you, son? 
Why, the best books have n't been written, 

The chances have only begun; 
The best score has nt been made yet, 

The best race has nt been run. 
The best game has nt been played yet, 

Cheer up, for the world is young! " 

The trouble with the unsuccessful is not 
that they lack ability or opportunity. They 
lack none of the success-requisites save one, 
and that one they can get any moment they 
want it — willingness to pay the price. 
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c a 

Why They Make Money 

<I The rest of the world wonders and com- 
plains at the success of a certain well-known 
race of people, but it might better be learn- 
ing a lesson from them. 

We need not concentrate on the same goal 
but we can apply the one big secret of their 
success to higher ones. That secret is the one 
stated above — a willingness to make any 
sacrifice necessary to success in a chosen 
undertaking. 

To people of other races self-complacency, 
inertia, pugnacity, and a hundred other 
things, take precedence of the success-desire, 
but to this one there is nothing but the 
goal S3 S3 

You may kick this man down your front 
steps, but by the time you have closed the 
door you will find him smilingly entering 
at the back. 

And the chances are he will leave with 
your name on the dotted line! 



MENTAL ANALYSIS 



This type of person — regardless of race, 
color, nationality, training, education or 
environment — is bound to win. He can bear 
any humiliation and make any sacrifice for 
success 33 33 

One Thing 

<JA woman who has attained fame and 
fortune by her own efforts, despite poverty, 
ill health, ugliness and other handicaps, was 
talking not long ago to a small group of old 
friends whom she had not seen since she was 
a ragged little girl in the ragged little Western 
town where she grew up. 

11 Let me see, Helen, did n't you wait table 
once at the Smith Central? I seem to remem- 
ber seeing you there when you were about 
f if teen/ ' asked one of the friends. 

" Yes," she replied, " and the Summer 
before that I washed dishes at the Belvedere, 
and the Summer before that I had a stren- 
uous position as cook, scrub woman and 
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maid-of-all-work on a big ranch where forty 
men were employed. The rancher's wife had 
a nap every afternoon and retired at nine. I 
was up at five and did not sit down from 
that time until midnight. 

" But I had a wonderful time. I needed 
that $3 a week to buy books and clothes for 
high school that Fall. When Fall came I got 
another job — working for my board in a 
family of seven children — but I had to have 
an education and thought I was a lucky girl 
to even get a, job!" 

After more mutual reminiscenses one of 
the women turned to the now successful 
one and said, " Did you ever select anything 
and say you would not do that — did n't 
you have powerful aversions to doing some 
things?" 

1 ' There was one," the woman replied — 
''just one thing I always said even as a 'child 
that I would not do. I said it over and over, 
and it was, ' I will not fail! ' " 
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Flirting With Failure 

<J If you care enough about being a success 
to stop flirting with failure you will find the 
work and the opportunities necessary to 
make you one. 

People miss success because they want to 
eat their cake and have it too. They won't 
do this and they are too good to do that; 
they are above this and superior to that — 
in their youth. At middle age they are making 
excuses, and at sixty many are brought to 
to a choice between those very same menial 
things and the poorhouse. 

False pride has cheated more people out 
of success than any other thing in this world. 

Pride that is real is too proud to drag 
you a frazzled failure through this world of 
opportunity! 

Self-Tests for Success 

<I The content of your own subconscious- 
ness determines your success or failure. 

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To know whether you are going to be a real 
success you have but to ask yourself the 
following questions: 

1. Which of these two attitudes predomi- 
nate in my mind : the determination against 
doing certain things or a determination to 
do certain things? 

2. Do I keep my mental eyes fastened on 
the fears of failure or the certainties of 
success? 33 33 

3. Do I think more about the obstructions 
in my pathway — my troubles, my enemies, 
my handicaps, my disadvantages, my weak- 
nesses — than the goal I hope to reach? 

The answer to these questions reveals the 
content of your subconscious as regards 
success-qualities. If you are wasting your 
strength against things, people, problems 
and life in general instead of expending it 
for the things you desire, you are running 
your car in reverse and backing yourself 
down hill. 

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Faith or Fear ? 

<I If your mind has more fear than faith in 
it you are going to lose! Nothing on earth 
can make any man a winner who does n't 
believe in himself. 

Nothing can make you a failure save your- 
self 33 33 

If your subconscious is centered more on 
thoughts about your troubles; if your talk 
is full of them, you will have lots more of 
them, for you are putting into operation a 
great law and the law, being immutable, will 
bring them to you. 

Forget Your Enemies 

^ If you burn the candles of memory at the 
shrine of your enemies you are going to make 
more enemies and further embitter the ones 
you already have. 

If you think and talk and act out your 
handicaps, your disadvantages, your weak- 
nesses, you are planting tares and will reap 
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bigger and bigger harvests of these very 
things as life goes on. 

For your subconscious content makes or 
mars your life. If it is destructive your life 
will be destructive. There is no way on earth 
to avoid it, though millions have tricked 
themselves into thinking they could. 

The Might of Mind 

<& What is in your mind comes out in your 
life. You can' t fool the Force that rules the uni- 
verse. That Force decrees that certain causes 
bring certain results and they always do. 

The world calls the successful man an 
egoist and he is. But he is seldom a vain 
egotist. He believes in his own strength and 
proves he has it. 

The mediocre and the failures become 
mediocre and fail because they so overrate 
themselves as to imagine they can outwit 
divinity. This is not true of every failure but 
of most 33 33 

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The Failure Ego 

<I You can apply another little test that will 
tell you whether any man is this type or not. 
If he is forever expressing envy, jealousy, 
suspicion and criticism of the successful it 
has but one cause — the resentment of his 
own disappointed ego. 

Those who have failed through little fault 
of their own are never embittered by the 
successes of others. 

If you are constantly deriding, pulling 
down, carping at the good fortune of others; 
if you call every successful person vain, 
selfish or a money-grabber, wake up to 
yourself S3 33 

Realize that this attitude betrays you 
to every person who knows anything at all 
about human psychology. It tells him you 
are only judging others by yourself and that 
you are assuming they must be all these 
because your wounded vanity demands con- 
solation S3 $£ 

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Self-Revealers 

<ft Furthermore, it is a well-known fact that 
the motives you are in the habit of ascribing 
to others are what you know your own would 
be in their place. If you can not see a man 
successful without calling him vain, it is 
because you would be vain in his place. 

If you can not see a rich man without 
calling him mercenary, it is because you are 
mercenary. If you can not see another on the 
pinnacle of fame or fortune without thinking 
he is insincere it is because you lack sincerity. 

Subconscious Content 

All these are indications of your subcon- 
scious content. 

Since your subconscious content deter- 
mines your success, do you not see why some 
people have failed? People who worked and 
slaved and skimped — yes, and went to church! 

You have got to have the pure air of right 
attitudes blowing through your mental 
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windows if you want to be successful. Andre 
Tridon says, " The genius is always un- 
selfish. In the neurotic, egotism is a mask 
for a sense of inferiority. ,, 

He and scores of other mental scientists 
declare that the successful are less vain, less 
selfish, less deceitful, less mercenary than the 
failures 53 33 

Success and Constructiveness 

<I But that is not by any manner of means 
the most important thing upon which they 
agree 33 33 

They have found that it is chiefly because of 
their more constructive mental attitudes that 
these people have succeeded. 

Does this not contain a great lesson for 
every human being? And does it not prove, 
after all, that regardless of our particular 
belief or unbelief, the truth was spoken when 
it was said, " The letter of the law killeth but 
the spirit maketh alive? " 
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Your Subconscious Army 

<J Your subconscious is a great standing 
army you personally own and control. 

Through your conscious mind you are 
giving it orders every waking moment. 

If you keep your mind full of destructive 
thoughts of any nature whatever you are 
giving destructive orders to your army and 
it will bring to pass in your life the destruc- 
tive things you order. 

If you have been getting what you did not 
want it was because, unknowingly, you have 
been giving your subconscious powers the 
wrong kind of orders. 

Function of the Subconscious 

^ Your subconscious is wrapped and woven 
around and over and under and through 
just one thing — your supreme life wish. 

It has no function save to see that wish grat- 
ified; it never tires, never sleeps, never forgets. 

It never accepts excuses; never takes No 
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for an answer; never for so much as an instant 
lessens its concentration on the attainment 
of your one supreme aim. 

It gathers from every source within your 
reach all manner of materials for your use 
in the furthering of this wish, much of which 
you never suspect until you start to do the 
thing you want to do. 

How the Subconscious Helps 

<I A man has a deep desire for many years to 
write a certain book. He is so busy with his 
everyday affairs it is years before he sits down 
to start the manuscript. He thinks he has 
only enough material for a beginning. 

But he soon finds that through his intense 
and genuine interest in this subject, his sub- 
conscious has gathered data for a dozen 
books — and hands it out to him. 

He is amazed to discover how deeply he has 
thought on this subject and how many illus- 
trations he has at his tongue's end. He can 
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not write fast enough to keep up with his 
mind, which is bursting with material for the 
tangible products. 

But if this man, instead of deeply desiring 
for years to write a book only thinks for years 
that it would be a good idea to write a book, 
he will find when he sits down that he has 
almost no material. 

He will awaken to the realization that he 
knows very little about the subject and that 
what he does know is unorganized, chaotic 
and distasteful. 

When one truly desires to write on a 
certain subject he has so much material in 
his mind he scarcely uses his notes. But when 
he attempts to write anything against his 
desires he gets little from even the most 
voluminous notes, memoranda or previous 
manuscript S3 33 

These facts and similar ones are known to 
every person who tries to do anything he has 
long desired to do. 

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Another Test 

<J The condition of your subconscious tells, 
with unmistakable certainty, whether you 
are achieving about what you are capable of, 
whether you are lagging behind or falling far 
short of what you have the ability to ac- 
complish 33 33 

You can go far toward determining for your- 
self which you are doing by the following tests: 

First of all, in what are you dissatisfied 
with yourself? 

And, in what way are you constantly con- 
scious of not coming up to your standards? 

That standard comes from your subcon- 
scious and comes because you are capable of 
doing the very thing you desire to do. 

Regret a Recorder 

<I Subconscious discontent is the method 
taken by your subconscious to register its 
disapproval. It never disapproves of you for 
not doing what you can not do. The fact that 
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you regret not living up to a certain ideal 
is the proof that you are fully able to do so. 
The man who can do wrong, weak things 
without regret is always a far lower-grade 
man than the one who suffers remorse. The 
one who knows the keenest suffering and self- 
discontent is the man who is possessed of the 
highest powers. 

Ambition — The Acid Test 

<IWhat is the amount of your ambition? 

If you have little it is because you have 
little ability. 

Ambition to do a thing comes from the 
capacity to do it and is the demand of that 
capacity to be brought out and utilized. 

A thing you have no ambition to do you 
have no ability to do. The man who, at thirty, 
has no ambition to be an architect will never 
be an architect. 

The woman who, at thirty, has no ambi- 
tion whatever to sing has no singing ability. 
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The Real Difference 

flf In this connection do not confuse the kind 
of work you really wish to do with the kind 
of work you imagine would bring you the 
things you want. 

For instance, if you really want to sing, 
for the sheer love of singing and not for its 
rewards or the things it would bring, you 
have singing ability. 

But if the real desire in the bottom of your 
subconscious mind is not to do the singing 
for the sheer joy of doing it but to have the 
emoluments, honors, glory, fame or money 
you think it would produce for you, you have 
little and perhaps no singing ability. 

You will never succeed supremely in any 
line of work or endeavor which you do not 
truly, deeply, subconsciously, intensely want 
to do 33 53 

What you want to do you have immeas- 
urable power to do — and the power is in 
proportion to the desire. 

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The "Sleep Test" 

<& Science has made one other amazing and 
illuminating discovery. It is that we crave 
sleep in proportion as we are unhappy, 
unhealthy or unsuccessful. 

When we are happy, well, and successful 
we can stay in perfect health on much less 
sleep than we require at other times. 

When we are disappointed, discouraged, 
depressed, ill or humiliated we want to escape 
from reality, and the subconscious furnishes 
the sleepiness necessary to bring temporary 
peace 33 33 

Napoleon's Sleep 

<I Napoleon required sleep wholly according 
to whether he was winning or losing battles. 
Three hours were sufficient when things were 
going well with him. 

His biographers and all historians of the 
period agree that immediately following his 
most successful battles he often went several 
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days and nights without any sleep whatever. 
After his exile — when the light had gone 
out for him forever, and he knew it — he slept 
from ten to fourteen hours out of every 
twenty-four. 

Another Notable Example 

§ It is no mystery either to himself or to 
the psychologists why Thomas A. Edison 
requires less than four hours' sleep out of 
each twenty-four. 

He is doing what he wants to do. He is 
achieving in real life, the things his subcon- 
scious self, his real self, desires. He is living 
life to the full. 

His conscious and subconscious minds are 
working in harmony, aiding and abetting 
each other as they were created to do. There 
are almost none of the conflicts, interferences, 
oppositions, misunderstandings, or warfare 
which split and disintegrate the conscious and 
subconscious minds of the average individual. 
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This fact accounts not only for the success 
of Edison but for that of every successful 
person who ever lived. 

Unlock Your Nine-Tenths 

<R No man can succeed through his conscious 
mind alone, for this conscious mind is so 
recent an acquisition in human evolution 
that it is not yet in good running order. The 
slightest thing sidetracks it. 

Though far more powerful than we have 
ever suspected, the conscious mind is incap- 
able of the deep concentrated activity of the 
subconscious. It is flighty, erratic, whimsical, 
superficial compared to the subconscious 
mind 33 33 

The man who puts only his conscious mind 
on a thing gets only surface results. 

The saving fact here, however, is that the 

man who constantly turns his conscious 

mind on anything secures the co-operation 

of his subconscious also — and secures it to 

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whatever degree this thing on which he 
centers his mind promises to fulfill the 
supreme subconscious wish. 

In Your Own Case 

<R For instance, you may consciously dislike 
to be a traveling salesman. You don't like 
the traveling, the constant absence from 
home and friends which it necessitates. But 
you can do them all provided your supreme 
subconscious wish is to be the star salesman 
in your district. 

If your supreme wish is not for anything 
of this kind; especially if your deepest wish 
is to succeed at something entirely different, 
you will never get the co-operation of your 
subconscious mind in your salesmanship, no 
matter how long you keep at it nor how hard 
you try 33 33 

And all the years you keep at salesmanship 
you will find relief whenever possible in some 
form of forgetfulness. 

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6 * 

Sleep and the w Sleave of Care " 

<& The safest and sanest of these forms of 
forge tfulness is our friend Sleep — who " knits 
up the raveled sleave of care" and tries, by 
giving the stage of the mind over to the sub- 
conscious manager, to further our supreme 
ambitions. 

It takes the teamwork of conscious and 
subconscious minds, working in harmony 
both in sleep and in waking hours, to achieve 
anything great in life. If we sleep too much 
we hold back the other very necessary part 
of the team — the conscious mind. 

Sleep as the Refuge 

<IAs explained in the lesson on " Mental 
Miracles," whenever you are in trouble of any 
kind you tend to relieve the conscious mind 
of the strain — to " lose consciousness.' ' Some 
types find this relief in long nights of sleep 
or frequent "naps." 

Others seek it in various kinds of drink— 
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the same types invariably choosing drinks 
furnishing the same kind of reaction. 

Others seek forgetfulness in excitement, 
entertainment, society, travel, and the hun- 
dreds of other modern allurements. 

Any person's craving for these various 
"aids to forge tfulness" is in proportion to 
the degree that reality, actuality — the facts of 
life — are disappointing or disillusioning him. 

Desire For Drugs 

^f Thus the man who is discharged, jilted, 
financially ruined or worried, takes to drink 
if he is of a certain type. 

If he is of another type this same dis- 
appointment turns him toward the deep 
oblivion brought by drugs — in which case he 
will again choose the particular kind of drug 
that appeals to his particular temperament. 
Every suicide is committed in the effort to 
escape reality. The fact that the rich, beau- 
tiful and apparently happy destroy them- 
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selves shows how little we know of the inner 
facts of any other human being's life. 

That " dope " and drug " fiends " are often 
sensitive, keenly intellectual and idealistic 
individuals is not accidental. Such organisms, 
for a combination of reasons, find the harsh- 
ness of reality too awful to bear. 

For these reasons we are short-sighted and 
narrow when we blame or despise the person 
who resorts to any of these things. He is in 
trouble. What he needs and deserves is our 
sympathy and understanding. 

Success and Sleep 

<I Success, as each individual sees it, comes 
from the materialization of his supreme sub- 
conscious wish. The man who makes a million 
but who has missed the one big thing he 
wanted does not consider himself successful; 
but the one who wanted only to make money 
says when he does it, "I have succeeded. " 
Success is, after all, a matter of personal 
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viewpoint. You may not know what any given 
individual's standard of success or happiness 
is, but there is one way in which you can tell 
with absolute certainty whether he is coming 
up to the standard he has set for himself, and 
that is by noting how much or how little of 
his time he gives to things that bring mental 
oblivion S& 33 

The man who is achieving his supreme 
subconscious wish is so happy in the real- 
ization of life that he feels little need of any 
kind of mental oblivion. 

Sleep An Instinct 

<& Facts gathered over large areas and 
through long periods of time concerning the 
life of men and women in all countries in all 
ages show that sleep is an instinct, just as is 
eating or sex, and that it is resorted to, as are 
other instincts, in the degree as other instincts 
are undeveloped or unexpressed. 

Because sleep makes us harmless instead 
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of harmful as some of the other instincts do, 
society has smiled upon it and encouraged it 
— unless it is carried to excess — in which case 
society (feeling itself endangered by it) will 
criticise it, and apply the much-feared appel- 
lation "lazy" to whoever over-indulges in it. 
Carried to excess, sleep is as reprehensible 
as the excessive expression of any other 
instinct, but deserves more consideration at 
our hands even in its excess than we have 
been inclined to give, for no individual 
anesthetizes his senses save when those senses 
are suffering. 

Sleep In Future Ages 

<JAs man learns more and more how to 
coordinate his two minds he will be more and 
more successful and happy. 

As more and more men and women emulate 
in their lives the perfect co-ordination of 
powers seen in Edison they will more and 
more emulate his four hours of sleep. 
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And, ages hence, when we have learned 
how to live, the instinct of withdrawal from 
reality (which came down to us from the 
ages when reality was almost unbearable) 
will fade away. 

When that time comes there will be no 
beds, no skyscrapers honeycombed with 
" bedrooms' ' in which living men retire for 
hours from reality — and we will use con- 
structively the third of our lifetime which 
we now spend in sleep. 

Success and Your Subconscious 

<J Will you make a success of your job? 

The answer to this big question must have 
dawned on you while you have been reading 
this lesson. At least it has given you such 
insights into the real reasons for your own 
successes and failures as you never had before. 

It must be clear to you now that the 
things at which you failed were things which, 
for some reason, lacked the complete co- 
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operation of your subterranean, subcon- 
scious forces. It is these things and not just 
hard work that make any undertaking a 
success 53 3& 

It must be equally clear to you why your 
own triumphs and those of other people often 
came from less work than you had devoted 
to the thing that failed. 

You now know why, in the moment of 
winning, you could scarcely realize that the 
winner was really you. 

You also know why you often felt you 
really did n't deserve such a lot of credit as 
people gave you; that the person who did 
this successful thing was not you but some 
one working through you — some one bigger 
and stronger than yourself. 

Will You Succeed ? 

<J But to get back to the big question — will 
you succeed ? 

You will succeed provided your supreme 

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subconscious wish is for success. If your 
deepest, most absorbing desire is for success 
nothing under Heaven can keep it from you. 

If your supreme wish is for something else 
than success you will get that something else. 
If it is for mediocre success you will achieve 
mediocre success. If it is for supreme, sublime 
success you will get it. 

You will get it because it would then be 
your supreme, subconscious wish. 

How that wish is to be attained will be 
made clear in the next lesson — a lesson con- 
taining hitherto unpublished and until very 
recently unknown laws of the most vital 
import to every human being. 



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The high soul goes the. high way 
And the low soul gropes the low, 

While in between on the misty flats. 
The rest drift to and fro. 

But to every man there openeth 

A high way and a low. 
And every man decideth 

Which way his soul shall go. 

— John Oxenham. 



<#* 



Lesson VII 



cfr*^ 



How To Attain Your 
>reme Wish 



Supi 



HAT, more than 
anything else in 
the world, do you 
want out of life? 
The answer you 
make, in your 
secret soul, to this 
question deter- 
mines with utter, 
inexorable cer- 
tainty what you 
are going to get. Not the details — they don't 
count — but ultimately, eventually in your 
life as a whole. 

In this lesson is published, for the first 

time, the most recent and by far the most 

startling psychological discovery concerning 

the real secret of human happiness that has 

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been made in the history of scientific research. 

It will show you to your complete satis- 
faction what has been holding you back and 
how to take your foot off the brake if you 
really desire to do so. 

It is going to take the props from under 
some of your pet alibis, but if you are the 
honest seeker after truth which your study 
of mental analysis implies, you will be glad 
to part with them in return for the great 
self-revelation and self-realization this lesson 
gives you. 

Why You Lost 

<R This lesson will show you, with intense 
clarity, why you have lost many things you 
tried to get. It will show you where the fault 
lay and where it came from. It will show you 
who was to blame and why. It will show you 
how that person was to blame for your not 
accomplishing the thing you attempted. It 
will show you exactly what stood in your 
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path and who put it there. It will show you 
how to take obstructions away from your 
path in future if you really desire to be free of 
them. It will also show you why and how 
others have failed. 

Why You Won 

<I This lesson will show you why you 
succeeded when you did succeed. 

It will show you why you seemed to do the 
biggest things most easily; why you had, 
through it all, a sense of not really doing it 
yourself but of being the instrument, as it 
were, of a person bigger and stronger than 
yourself 53 33 

It will show you why you lived through 
some of your greatest tragedies in spite of 
the conviction that you never would. 

It shows you the real, inner secret of all 
your own accomplishments and those of 
other people. 

It shows you the great law which has 

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brought every personal success, every personal 
achievement and every personal triumph 
that has ever been accomplished in this world. 

Why You Did Them 

flf It shows you why you always find time, 
strength and opportunity to do certain things 
and none for certain others; why you " give 
up" certain ambitions and reconcile your- 
self to going without all kinds of things you 
had supposed paramount in your life while 
clinging tenaciously to others which your 
common sense tells you are inconsequential. 

It shows you why the people of the 
supposedly greatest gifts fail while others, 
who started with few, go to the top of Life's 
Ladder 33 33 

It shows you why you have permitted 
some of your own greatest talents to lie 
undeveloped while working hard to succeed 
at something for which you seem to have no 
ability 33 53 

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Clews To Our Own Mysteries 

<I You have sometimes wondered why you 
simply could not go on with a thing which 
you knew was for your own best good. You 
have marvelled at your capacity for making 
the same kind of mistake over and over. 

You have become disgusted and often dis- 
couraged with yourself for the inexplicable 
reactions certain things and especially cer- 
tain work cause in you. 

You have thought of all these and a 
thousand other self-mysteries, and either 
arrived at some theory that appeals to your 
particular type and temperament, or you 
have given it up, thinking — and perhaps say- 
ing — " There is no accounting for us; a human 
being is a conglomeration of enigmas! " 

Life a Mystifying Drama 

*I The average individual is like a child seeing 

a moving picture for the first time. He sees 

an amazing, mystifying, myriad -sectioned 

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drama unwind before his eyes. To him it is 
the realest of reality. All is as it seems on the 
screen — and all arises from and returns to 
the unseen, the mysterious. 

The average unthinking individual lives 
in a maze of moving mysteries which he calls 
his life. The unexpected is always happening 
to him. The expected and longed-for happens 
but seldom and when it does he can not see 
how nor why, so is unable, in any way, to 
repeat it 33 3S 

He no more attempts to understand the 
laws back of his life-dream than the three- 
year-old child at the movies attempts to 
figure out how pictures are made. He swallows 
it, enjoys what he can, registers verbal dis- 
approval when things go wrong — but sits and 
takes it, like the babe in the theater. 

He feels helpless, often hopeless. But it is 
too big a tangle to understand or straighten 
out; so there he waits watching his life-story 
play itself out as it will. 

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Making Your Own Movies 

<I This lesson is to prove to you that your 
life-movie does n't " just happen;" that you 
are not at the mercy of Fate; that you and 
you alone make your own life drama. 

It is going to show you that the play in 
which you are acting the life-picture you see 
unwinding before your eyes each day, is based 
on laws as sane, simple and scientific as those 
back of the making of a motion picture. It is 
going to do for you, in explanation, what 
we would be doing for the child if we took 
him out of the theater — whose pictures he 
had always supposed to be magic-made — 
and showed him the camera, the studio, the 
actors and actresses, the stages and direc- 
tors, scenarios, lighting effects — the mass of 
natural forces through whose application 
every picture is made. 

We hope this lesson will do for you much 
more than that. We shall show you how 
certain everyday, ever-operative natural laws 

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are behind every individual drama; how every- 
thing in your life is made, directly or indi- 
rectly, consciously or unconsciously, by you, 
through your use or misuse of these same 
natural laws. 

We are going to show you how your 
pictures are made — the machinery back of 
every movie you have ever put on in your 
own life; why you played the role you did and 
why you are playing, at this moment, the 
very part you are. 

It is our sincere hope that you who read 
these pages will, from this day onward, apply 
these laws in your own life, for by so doing you 
shall attain your deepest and dearest desires. 

A Law-Ruled World 

Q We, like the babe at the movies, live in the 
delusion that things are only what they seem 
— a maelstrom in which we are caught, a 
moving mirage that whirls and swirls and 
carries us on against our will. 

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Science shows us that everything in the 
universe has a cause and that the same cause 
always and invariably brings the same results. 
Nothing " just happens.' ' There are no acci- 
dents. All occurs in accordance with divine, 
unchanging law. 

The world we live in today is exactly the 
same world the cave man dwelt in. But 
civilized man, through a working knowledge 
of law, has brought out of these unseen and 
hitherto undreamed-of forces the things that 
make life livable, beautiful, uplifting. 

The cave man called the lightning a god of 
wrath and fell down in fear when his flashes 
illumined the sky. Civilized man, through a 
study and understanding of law, brings that 
same force to bear on his problems and with 
it lights the world, heats his home, travels 
around the globe and talks, without wires, 
from one end of the earth to the other. 

In the last twenty years science has been 
discovering that human health and disease, 
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human success and failure, human happiness 
and unhappiness — all the problems of human 
life — are equally controlled by law; that man 
is a part of, not a part from natural and 
divine law; that the laws of the mind, body 
and spirit of every individual are ever oper- 
ating and are ever bringing to him, in exact 
accordance with these laws, the things that 
come out in his life. 

The stars shine out across the wide-domed 

space. 
Faring their fleeting journey night and 

day; 
Each keeping to its measured time and 

place, 
According to the law each must obey. 

And stars and souls, rosebloom and planet, 

whirled, 
Obey the wondrous law that makes the 

world. 

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Conscious Wishes 

fl Every man and woman has many con- 
scious wishes. They are in the surface mind, 
the busy brain that handles the affairs of the 
moment and the events of the day. 

You have a conscious wish to arrive at the 
office in time to look through your mail before 
the opening hour. You have another con- 
scious wish to remember a fact, statement, 
the amount of that check you must write. 

You have thousands of these conscious 
wishes during the course of a busy day. They 
pass into and out of your mind without 
much ado. 

Conscious Standards 

^f As a result of your training, education, 
environment, experience, type, personality 
and several other things, you have acquired 
certain conscious standards — of what you 
ought to do and be and accomplish; of 
what you owe the world, society and your 
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fellow-man; of the right and square way to 
treat people; of honesty, justice, fair play; 
of how much and how well a man ought to 
work to get on in life; of how you ought to 
act under all conditions; of what you ought 
to acquire, achieve, accomplish; of the heights 
to which you ought to rise; the influence you 
ought to wield; the prestige you ought to 
have; the good name, fame or glory you ought 
to win 53 53 

In short, you have builded into that con- 
scious mind of yours whole sets of ironclad 
ideals which you aspire to live up to. 

Whether you have lived up to them in the 
past has depended on just one thing which 
you had in those past years; whether you are 
living up to them now, and in what propor- 
tion, all depends on how much of that same 
thing you have today. 

Whether you will in the coming years live 
up to these standards, achieve these things 
you consciously strive for, will depend upon 
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how much you understand, amend and 
utilize that same something. That thing 
which determines it all— which has actuated 
directly or indirectly every act of your life — is 

Your Supreme, Subconscious Wish 

<I One of the most recent and revolutionizing 
discoveries of science is that every human 
being has, in addition to these temporary 
conscious wishes and conscious standards, 
one wish which overtops all others, a wish 
which is often secret and sometimes sub- 
merged, but which saturates his subconscious 
mind S& S& 

This wish is never for one specific thing 
nor does it deal with details. It is not for 
certain things, nor even for specific people 
in our lives, but for a condition in life — 
an environment, a kind of expression — the 
untrammelled satisfaction of a basic instinct! 
The achieving of a great ambition in some 
general direction — the attainment of a beau- 
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tiful character, the acquirement of riches or 
the winning of an immortal name. And 
sometimes — in fact all too often — the secret 
supreme wish is for none of these uplifting 
things but for others of a far different nature. 

Life Builded Around the Wish 

1& The second great discovery which is revolu- 
tionizing the science of psychology is that 
every human being builds his life around 
his supreme subconscious wish. 

Some build their lives around the supreme 
wish consciously; others, unconsciously or 
subconsciously; but each is building every 
year, every day, every hour, directly or 
indirectly toward the gratification of his 
deepest desire. 

The average individual has never heard of 
this urge at whose behest he lays practically 
every plan of his life. He is often unaware of 
this intense yearning which dictates the 
direction of his energies, predetermines the 
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trend of activities characterizing every week 
of his life; which actuates the manifold 
expressions of himself and which prejudices, 
pulls and pushes him in directions serving 
its purpose. 

But this does not alter the fact that it is 
there and that it wields an influence upon 
our lives which, in the end, makes or mars 
them 53 53 

The Weak Link 

<JWe often wonder why a promising man 
with brains, education, advantages, good 
looks and every possible chance makes such 
a mess of his life. 

Especially do we wonder why this intel- 
ligent individual should make the same kind 
of mistakes over and over, permitting this 
one species of weakness to ruin his existence. 

" He is so unusual in so many ways," we 
say. " Why can't he see that it is only this 
one thing that is wrecking his chances? Is n't 

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it too bad that a fine young man like that, 
with such splendid qualities, should permit 
one little thing to destroy him! " 

In every such case — and there are many of 
them — the individual's supreme subconscious 
wish is for something which the giving in to 
this weakness brings him. 

One Woman's Wish 

<R A woman who was well known as a writer 
of superior magazine articles was an out- 
spoken radical. 

She lived in a suffrage state so had a vote 
and cast it consistently for a radical ticket. 
She believed in birth control and declared 
that if she ever married she would not feel 
entitled to bring children into the world — 
not only because it was, as she was fully con- 
vinced, too cruel to give them a chance, but 
because her mother had died in an insane 
asylum and her father in a tuberculosis 
hospital S3 S3 

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She lived in Arizona herself as a result of 
of a prolonged siege of the disease which 
had taken away one lung, but which seemed 
now to be under control. 

This woman had a most unusual mind. 
Her conversation was as interesting as a 
play, her writing was scintillating and extra- 
ordinarily clever. She was widely read, a deep 
student and a most convincing speaker on 
these very subjects upon which she held such 
radical views. 

She finally married. Her husband did not 
care for children. But once every year for 
twelve years now she has presented him with 
a son or daughter, and once with both! 

All her friends say, " What in the world 
has come over Agnes? What became of her 
convictions? " 

The answer is not far to seek. Agnes, under 
all her conscious attitudes, had a deep, 
devouring, desperate desire. 

Far back of and behind and beyond these 
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surface things there was a supreme subcon- 
scious wish. That wish was to be the mother 
of a large family. 

Reason, common sense, horse sense and 
her sense of justice told her that she — in 
whose veins ran two taints — had little right 
to jeopardize innocent lives. 

Intelligence and human sympathy told 
her that life — never easy for the strongest — 
would be cruelly savage to the handicapped. 
Study and thought convinced her conscious 
mind that one hampered as she was might 
better be educating the world toward social 
and political betterment than adding to its 
population. 

But the moment opportunity offered away 
went every conscious conviction, every stan- 
dard of the years — and in came the subcon- 
scious urge! It took possession. Or rather, 
it kept possession. For it was the working 
out of that old subconscious longing which 
caused her to marry at all. 

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And this brings us to the third great new 
discovery: 

You Get What You Want Most 

^ This newest, hitherto unpublished and 
most far-reaching of all the discoveries con- 
cerning the laws of human life is that every 
human being GETS his supreme subcon- 
scious wish. 

At first glance he may question this; but 
five minutes of honest self-inventory serves 
to convince every person that it is literally, 
utterly true. 

You, for instance, may say, " That can't 
be true. Why, I wanted a college education 
more than I wanted anything else in the world . 
I have wanted it for years and I have failed 
to get it!" 

You are sincere in saying this — just as 
you have been sincere all the time in telling 
the same thing to yourself and your friends. 

But if you will look deep into your own 
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heart you will find that at least one other 
desire — perhaps a dozen of them — takes 
precedence, in your secret list, of this desire 
for a college education. 

You may never have stopped to think of 
it before (and the probabilities are you have 
said it so often you fully believe it) but when 
you come right down to it, there are several 
things you want more than you want that 
college education. Yes, I know, something 
was always happening to prevent your going 
to college. There always is something happen- 
ing to prevent things, and it prevents them 
too — all but your real wish! 

When things happen to that, you go right 
over them. You find a way out. You do 
something to counteract it. You invariably 
ride over the difficulty — and do it! 

From Observation 

<& During the past ten years at least a hun- 
dred men and women have told us " the only 

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thing on earth they had wanted most was to 
go to college but it had been impossible/ ' 

What were the psychological facts? 

One young man who vehemently denied 
at first that he had ever desired anything as 
much as a college education, finally said that 
he believed he wanted to get married more 
than he wanted an education. This was the 
reason for his marrying instead of going to 
college S3 S3 

Another who was certain that nothing had 
ever superseded his desire to go to college 
realized that what he had really wanted most 
was to travel. He hoped to go abroad and had 
decided a college education would help to 
give him a keener appreciation of the things 
he expected to see in his travels. 

When he was given a position which took 
him several times a year to London and Paris, 
he subconsciously gave up the college idea, 
though continuing consciously to think and 
to declare that it was a great disappointment. 
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These are not deliberate deceptions we 
practise upon ourselves and our friends. We 
know very little about our real selves until 
we study the human sciences. The result is 
that only an occasional individual ever meets 
the stranger that lives in his skin! 

What You Really Want 

<I A man once said to us, "I can not believe 
that every person gets his supreme, sub- 
conscious wish. I have loved a woman for 
eight years. My subconscious wish was to 
have her. I have n't gotten her, and what 
is more, it does n't look as though I ever 
would. Yet I have tried with all my might 
to win her." 

We explained to him this other great law: 
Our supreme subconscious wish is never 
for any specific thing or person but for a con- 
dition, a certain avenue of self-expression. 
The supreme wish saturates the subcon- 
scious mind but the subconscious mind never 
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knows nor cares anything about details 
nor the fine points concerned with methods. 
All it knows is overwhelming desire for a 
certain kind of satisfaction for your per- 
sonality as a whole. 

The conscious mind supplies methods, 
means, the vehicles for realizing these sub- 
conscious desires. 

Your Special Train 

<I These two great minds of ours may be 
likened to the equipment of a freight train. 
The subconscious mind supplies the steam, 
the going power, the forces necessary to your 
arriving at a certain destination. 

It is unlike steam in this, however: it knows 
the general direction in which you want to 
go and is concentrated on your getting there. 
But it allows the engineer (your conscious 
mind) to select the crew, the paraphernalia 
for the journey and to take whichever one of 
the tracks it prefers. 

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But it gives you no peace save when you 
are traveling in the general direction of its 
{and your) subconscious aim! 

It stays out of sight, but goads, drives and 
lashes you whenever you start down a side- 
track — and gives you its full help only when 
you get back on the main line. 

What He Really Wanted 

<& What this man really wanted was not this, 
nor any one specific woman, but some gen- 
eral kind of self-expression for his personality 
which he considered the possession of her 
would make possible for him. In other words, 
she was what every individual is to the sub- 
conscious mind of his lover — the means to an 
end S3 S& 

No adult man or woman lives who sub- 
consciously loves another man or woman. 
The subconscious knows no individuals as 
such. It is not concerned with the personnel 
of anything — only with results. 
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Your subconscious knows no one but you. 
It has no desire, no religion, no aim, no 
interest save the accomplishment of your 
wants. You are its world, its master, its 
adored. The result of the universe is, to your 
subconscious mind, only a place in which 
you function, a stage on which you act, the 
world in which you live and move and have 
your being. 

Self and the Subconscious 

<I " Where do I come in? " is the first question 
your mind puts to everything you ever hear, 
everything that is broached to you, every- 
thing that comes within the range of your 
consciousness. . 

If you can not see wherein you are going to 
get self-expression of some sort you stay away 
from it. Even our most generous acts are 
performed more for our own self-expression 
than for the persons for whom we do them. 

The man who gives his money to the poor 

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and dies penniless has not really sacrificed 
himself. His supreme subconscious desire 
was for that kind of self-expression. He was 
happiest that way and did it because he 
could find more happiness in that than in 
keeping it for himself. 

In other words, he bought, with his money, 
the thing that appealed most to him, and 
though in so doing he proved himself a higher, 
finer nature than the average, and deserves 
our admiration and respect as a superman, 
he is not to be credited with self-sacrifice. 

What we call self-sacrifice is always the 
sacrifice of something the individual wants 
for something he wants more — therefore is 
not self-sacrifice at all. 

Supermen and Super women 

<$ The big thing we must not overlook in this 
new understanding is that the individual 
who prefers to use his money this way, who 
gets his greatest happiness out of helping 

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others is a highly evolved individual, far 
ahead of his time — spiritual in the highest, 
finest sense, sympathetic, superhuman. 

You need not regret that you can no longer 
credit him with self-sacrifice. This kind of 
human being is far more admirable than one 
who would reverse God's first law of self- 
preservation. We know it is God's law 
because He puts it into every living organism. 

Your first duty is to yourself — to make 
yourself the highest, best, biggest and 
broadest being you can be; and the proof of 
this lies in every living thing in the universe. 

You can never help humanity very much 
till you can walk alone. Your first duty there- 
fore, to the world and to yourself, is to 
learn to stand alone! Don't lop and lean and 
loll on other people. 

First, develop your own backbone. Then, 
as you go along, help everybody, inspire 
everybody, uplift everybody — and don't for- 
get to start! 

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Don't make the mistake that thousands 
of well-meaning people have — of waiting till 
your own life is perfect before beginning to 
give others a lift. 

" You will pass this way but once," so 
scatter real help as you travel, but keep your 
life-belt on! Keep your head up, your eyes 
open, your heart gentle — but keep climbing! 

What Mark Twain Said 

f If you would like to see what a great 
thinker says about these real human motives 
read the book Mark Twain wrote and which 
he directed should not be published till five 
years after his death, "What Is Man?" 
In it he shows you, in better words than 
we can, how every act of every human being 
is for " the contentment of his own spirit." 

The Real Reason 

<§ What about the man who thought his 
supreme subconscious wish had been for the 

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woman he had courted eight years and did n't 
get? 33 53 

He loved her with the only force an adult 
loves with — his conscious mind. His supreme 
subconscious wish was for this particular 
kind of self-expression which he consciously 
decided such a mate would give him. 

Consciously, therefore, he loved her person- 
ally, individually, devotedly. His subcon- 
scious mind, which can love none other than 
the person to whom it belongs, had no 
interest in her save as she promised to 
gratify that supreme subconscious wish for 
this particular kind of self-expression. 

That this was precisely the situation was 
proved recently, when this very man was 
married to another woman, much like the 
one he had wooed so long — and whom he now 
feels he loved more than he loved the first. 

11 I realize fully now," he said not long ago, 
" that my supreme subconscious wish has 
always been for the kind of home-life these 
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women would make possible/' Any woman 
who gave evidence of fulfilling this wish would 
have gotten a proposal out of this man. 

Why and Whom We Love 

1$ Though it is a startling, and to many 
a shocking fact, it is nevertheless true that 
the people we love are desired, not for them- 
selves but for ourselves, and loved to the 
extent that they, directly or indirectly, aid in 
our own self-expression. 

All of which proves again how the beloved 
ego in each of us makes or mars our world. 

The child loves best the parent who most 
aids it in expressing itself. The man loves 
best those women who aid most in his self- 
expression. Women love best those men who 
aid them most in their self-expression. 

Every unmated person is seeking, as we 
have seen, a lover who recapitulates the 
symbol of his first great love. 

But such a one, even if found, will never 
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bring him continued happiness unless he be, 
in addition to this symbol, of a biological 
type which automatically aids in the self- 
expression of his mate. 

When a man finds a woman who recreates 
his love-symbol he can love her instantaneous- 
ly, but if her biological type is such that she 
can not aid in his continued self-expression 
he will eventually tire of her. The more she 
obstructs his self-expression, the sooner will 
he tire 3& 33 

If she not only refuses to yield herself as an 
aid to the expression of his type and subcon- 
scious wish, but insists upon changes in him 
which enable her to express her own, he will 
gradually grow to dislike her. If she keeps 
it up he will ultimately, subconsciously hate 
her, though she be the mother of his children! 

Types and Marriage 

<I The matter of biological types is too 
extensive to go into here and has been fully 

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explained in our course, " The Five Human 
Types." 33 33 

The present course deals with man's sub- 
conscious mind, but if you are interested to 
further understand human types and their 
effect upon our love-life, see " Types that 
Should and Should Not Marry Each Other," 
Lesson VI of the above mentioned course. 

Why People Do Not Marry 

<I Whenever an individual goes through life 
without marrying it is not because he does 
not desire a mate, but because marriage with 
any of the people he has seen would, in his 
opinion, interfere with his supreme subcon- 
scious wish 33 33 

Every unmated person desires a mate, but 
if he desires something else more — that is, if 
the desire for a mate is not his supremest 
desire — he will not marry until he finds some 
one who he is convinced will not interfere 
with his supreme subconscious wish. 
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Why Others Marry 

<I Many men and women mate with one who 
does not remind them of their subconscious 
love-symbol, and they marry knowing this. 

Whenever this happens it is because the 
finding of a mate who shall repeat this love- 
symbol is not this person's supremest wish. 
He feels that the one he has chosen will aid 
in that supreme wish, whatever it may be, 
and strikes a compromise. 

Since that supreme wish is for something 
which to him is more desirable than the 
possession of an ideal mate he sacrifices the 
lesser to the greater. You do the same thing 
in every decision of your life. 

Why You Give Up Things 

<I You want many things,but you always give 
up those you want less for those you want 
most. Thus, in the by-and-large of your life 
you do what you want to do; you get the 
things you really want. 

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If you are unsuccessful it is because there 
was i one or many things you wanted more 
than you wanted success. 

Look back over your life and you will say 
that in your life as a whole you have been 
doing those things which, in general, appealed 
to you more than the kinds of things you 
refused to do. 

Perhaps you want money and yet are poor. 

But no one ever had a supreme subcon- 
scious wish for money. The subconscious, 
as has been stated, knows nothing of things, 
details, or the concrete. It knows only certain 
fundamentals — those big, basic urges of your 
personality. 

It knows many of these but takes it upon 
itself to fulfill in your life the one which, 
above all others, you want most. It has never 
heard of money and never can, for money, as 
money, is nothing but worthless chunks of 
metal and useless pieces of paper. Even your 
conscious mind, which does know and deals 

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with money, does not want money but only 
the self-expression which money would bring. 

Since the subconscious gets for you what- 
ever you want most, if the thing you want 
most is of such a nature that you have got 
to have money to get it, your subconscious 
will find a way for you to make money. 

It can find the means to any end you 
supremely, subconsciously demand. It will 
do so by keeping your eyes open for oppor- 
tunities furthering this end. 

It deals only with ultimates. Money, which 
has less intrinsic and ultimate value than 
almost anything with which we come in 
contact, is never in any man's supreme sub- 
conscious wish as such. It is not even in 
the supreme wish of the miser, but is desired 
and obtained by him wholly and solely as a 
means to protection. (The miser is always the 
result of a fixed fear — the fear of poverty — 
the product of a poverty-stricken childhood.) 

But because the fear-attitude prevents 

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great results in any direction, the miser, with 
all his skimping, never makes a great deal 
of money 33 33 

No self-made millionaire in the world ever 
cared for money as money. He had some 
kind of supreme subconscious wish requiring 
money for its full expression. It is precisely 
this which, every rich person will tell you, 
drove him to make money. 

Once it is made very few very rich people 
care for money. They conserve it only in so far 
as its conservation serves that same original 
wish 33 33 

Fame Through Fortune 

<I Here is a man whose supremest subcon- 
scious wish is for fame. His subconscious, 
which knows and remembers everything 
about him, contains the necessary elements 
and brings them to the surface as they are 
needed 33 33 

He has certain gifts, talents, abilities. He 

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lacks certain others. The quickest and surest 
route to the materialization of his supreme 
wish is through these talents. His subcon- 
scious suggests these routes. 

If these talents are superior he will rise to 
fame through them. The greater these talents 
the greater the urge to express them and the 
greater his ability to serve, entertain, amuse, 
or enlighten the world. In return, the world 
applauds him, gives him fame, pays him 
well — and his supreme wish is gratified. 

People are always glad to pay for what 
they like. The public is always generous to 
the able man. Whether or not he cares very 
much about money he is glad to have the 
public's money purely as a proof that he has 
succeeded — that his ego has satisfied itself, 
proven to itself that it can do this thing. 

Ambitious Americans 

<I In America success is all too often measured 
by money. Since money is the great Ameri- 

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can standard, and since every ambitious 
individual desires to live up to the standards 
of his environment, the ambitious American 
is compelled to seek money. 

Let a man with a message attempt to carry 
that message to the American public. Though 
it be the greatest message in the world, that 
public will not ask " How much good does 
this man do? " It will not even ask " What is 
his message about? " 

This public will ask but one question. That 
question will consist of six words: " How 
much money does he make? " 

Though you produce the greatest thing 
that has yet been produced, the American 
public will have none of it nor you if you can 
not make it pay financially. 

In self-defence, therefore, any person who 
has a great message to give to America is 
compelled to make that message pay. He 
must have the confidence of the public, as 
does any man who aspires to help the world. 
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It is inconceivable to the average American 
that you could have anything worth while 
unless you are making a financial success 
of your life. 

Instead of railing at the one who makes a 
great deal of money, use that energy to re- 
educate the public if you are really in earnest. 

If You Want Money 

^ If you want money you must do what every 
person did who ever made money: produce 
something the world wants and knows it 
wants. The world is always willing and glad 
to pay for what it really wants. 

But it is determined not to pay for what 
it does not want, just because you want or 
need the money. And you can't blame it, 
can you? S3 S& 

Remember, you can only get money via 
the world. For it you must give value received. 
To do that easiest and quickest, you must 
make your supreme subconscious wish into 

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a real desire to produce something the world 
needs. Once you have done this, the same 
forces which have always and will forever 
bring your supreme wish to pass in your life 
will point the way. 

Your Successful Subconscious 

^ Let us repeat: Your supreme subconscious 
wish dictates your life. It permits nothing 
seriously to interfere with its materialization. 
It is autocratic, implacable. What you want 
most of all y as a condition in your life, it 
will get for you. 

In the getting you are often compelled to 
forego many or hundreds of things you want, 
but want less. 

Your subconscious causes you to sacrifice 
these many things, and all things, if neces- 
sary, to the accomplishment of this supremest 
desire S3 S3 

You must relinquish this, sacrifice that, 
forego the other. You feel all this in the 
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depths of you. You do not like giving up the 
eating of your cake but — if you want the 
cake more than you want the pleasure 
of eating it, you will not eat it. Your sub- 
conscious and supreme wish will not permit 
you to. You made this choice yourself. Your 
subconscious takes you at your word, and 
not only relieves you of most of the labor by 
performing it itself, but refuses to permit you 
to greatly interfere with its activities. 

Your conscious mind may falter and fail, 
but your subconscious, once saturated with 
your supremest desire, is always successful. 

Subconscious of the Successful 

<I The most successful men and women, once 
they have decided on their supreme aim, auto- 
matically adapt themselves to this great law. 
Every successful person that ever lived 
gave up many things for the sake of his big 
ambition. At first he did so consciously. He 
had many backslidings. But as time went on 

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his conscious and subconscious minds worked 
in such unison that his subconscious sentinel 
learned at last habitually to turn away from 
the door of his mind the things that would 
interfere with the big desire, without his ever 
being conscious of making a decision. 

This is the secret of the great concentration, 
the " one-pointed' ' mind, the keen thought- 
capacity of every successful person. 

His mind is not necessarily superior to 
that of the average man, but he does what 
the average man fails to do — keeps the decks 
clear and ready for business. He keeps out 
of his mind, automatically, habitually, con- 
sciously and unconsciously the thieves that 
would steal his mental energy. 

After a time his subconscious becomes so 
expert that it short-circuits most of the waste- 
ful, inimical things that are headed for his 
mental house, thus conserving his mentality 
for the constructive, the worth while, the 
big thing in that man's life. 
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The subconscious performs, in addition 
to all its other services, the function of an 
expert private secretary guarding the front 
office of the mind. He permits no visitor to 
interrupt the president in his private office 
when he is at work. 

Thus is the president (his conscious mind) 
enabled to think out the plans, the ways, 
means and methods for making him a success. 

Your Wish is a Want 

<$ The reason your subconscious attains for 
you your supremest wish is that this deepest 
desire of your life is not a mere wish at all, but 
a goading, driving, overwhelming want. 

It is necessary, up to this point, because 
of the inadequacy of language, to call this 
a wish. But from this moment onward we 
shall call it what it is — the supreme subcon- 
scious want. There is a world of difference 
between wishing and wanting. 

When you wish for a thing you get it — 
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sometimes. When you want a thing you 
always get it. For a want is not a mere 
surface feeling, but a deep, desperate craving 
that demands not things nor people, nor 
trifling details, but great general outlets of 
self-expression. You must satisfy the greatest 
one or die. 

This supreme want is far more important 
than life itself to many human beings. 

These are the supreme successes. They had 
rather die than miss their goal. The man who 
wants a thing more than he wants life is 
filled with an enthusiasm so irresistible that 
it literally burns away all obstacles from his 
pathway S& S& 

What and Why is the Suicide ? 

<I The psychology of the suicide has been till 
now a mystery. 

11 No clue to the motive, " say a man's 
friends when they can find no cause for his 
desire to die. How seldom does the world 
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ever guess the real reason for those sufferings 
which so rack a human soul that it re- 
linquishes life rather than bear them! How 
seldom indeed does the man himself know 
the subconscious source of this urge, beside 
which life itself seems trivial. 

Yet today we know that every person who 
commits suicide does so only after he becomes 
overpowered with the conviction that he can 
never achieve his supreme subconscious want. 

The Woman Suicide 

<I The woman who commits suicide because 
her lover has deserted her does so because 
she is convinced that she has lost the only 
person through whom her demand for a 
particular kind of self-expression can be met. 
She does not think this out. All she knows 
is that she wants this particular kind of mate, 
or the particular life that he can give her. 
Her subconscious want is so strong that it 
has risen to the surface of her conscious mind 
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and is there recognized by her for what it is — 
the one thing which makes life worth while. 

Her error lies in the delusion that this 
individual is the only individual through 
whom she can attain this particular kind 
of self-expression, this particular response. 

Many a woman who has attempted suicide 
and been saved by resuscitation, or because 
the bullet went wild of its mark, has lived to 
realize that this man was, to her subconscious 
self, only the means to an end; that her fixa- 
tion upon him resulted from this subcon- 
scious certainty of his exclusive ability to 
furnish her with an avenue for self-expression. 

She learns later that the world contains 
others who will serve this purpose as well, 
many of whom are far superior to the man she 
once thought indispensable to her existence. 

The " Money" Suicide 

<§ u Women commit suicide because of love 
troubles; men because of money troubles/ ' 

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say the statistics. Here again we see the work- 
ing of the supreme want. 

The supreme subconscious want of woman 
is more often bound up with love than that 
of men and, of necessity, must be. She is the 
mother of the race, the propagation of which 
depends largely on her love-life. But the 
support of the home, the securing of life's 
necessities, is more often man's mission than 
woman's, and its full expression depends 
indirectly upon money and the success which 
money implies. 

When a man commits suicide because of 
money-troubles it is never because he feels he 
can not live without the money, but because 
he feels he can not live and face the disgrace, 
humiliation or shame the money loss would 
mean 33 33 

In every such case his supreme subconscious 
want is for something which only money, 
directly or indirectly, can provide. 

We choose the lesser evil always; or rather, 

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we choose the evil which to us appears to be 
the lesser. The standard is the supreme sub- 
conscious want. Everything is measured by 
its capacity to further that want. We make 
our own choices. Each individual who is not 
feeble-minded determines the course of his 
own life, and does so as much by the things he 
unconsciously leaves undone as by the things 
he consciously, volitionally chooses to do. 

Why Are We Unhappy ? 

<J If each of us is getting his supreme subcon- 
scious want why are so many of us unhappy? 
The answer is evident. 

This supreme subconscious want in each 
of us is a primal, instinctive thing. It may be 
founded in high, recent and civilized instincts, 
and often is; but much more often the deepest 
desire of the average organism is for the grati- 
fication of a primitive, uncivilized instinct, 
urge or tendency. 

These primitive instincts are out of place 

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in the world of today. Our training is against 
them; our cultivated ideals are against them; 
society in general is against them. But the 
law of the supreme subconscious want is 
immutable 53 S3 

If this primitive thing is what he really 
wants more than anything else in the world, 
the law brings it to pass in his life. If it is too 
far removed from modern instincts his family, 
his friends and the world will call him a 
coward, a ne'er-do-well, a beast or a criminal 
— depending upon the particular instinct 
which, out of the primitive group, is most 
over-developed in him. 

All the while he will be wishing to live up 
to his higher instincts. He has many others of 
high order. One of these — and it exists in every 
human being — is the instinct of approbation. 

He wishes the approval of his fellows; he 
wishes to do and be and have the things that 
make them like, admire, respect and follow 
him; but his supreme want must and will 

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express itself. All its enemies must go by the 
board. He makes excuses, he equivocates, he 
apologizes, he tries to justify his failures to 
the world, whose opinion he so much values. 

Most of all, he suffers. 

But he feels that he suffers less than he 
would were he to give up his supremest 
want — so he pays the price. 

Sympathy, Not Censure 

<R How sad a sight is this suffering man — 
existing in the twentieth century but living 
in primitive ages! 

What a contrast to that fortunate one 
whose supreme subconscious want is in 
harmony with modern standards, whose 
deepest desire happens to be toward the 
production of those things the world needs. 

Give him the laurels he has won, but don't 
forget to give to the other the sympathy and 
understanding to which every unsuccessful 
soul is entitled. 

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Through this you may reach his feeling, 
subconscious mind, and once there you may, 
with patience and earnestness, help him to 
change the subconscious desire which has 
ruled and ruined his life. 

How to Help Humanity 

<][ Parents, teachers, preachers — the whole 
world — may talk, argue, beseech, implore, 
preach to the weak of the desirability of better 
things, but you will never help him appreci- 
ably until you induce him to change his 
supreme subconscious desire. 

The trouble with most of those who have 
tried to make men see the error of their ways 
was not lack of arguments, intellect, nor 
faithfulness. Thousands of high-minded men 
and women who earnestly desired to help 
others have had all these, and failed to under- 
stand the ineffectiveness of their efforts. 

The explanation lies in human psychology. 
Reasons, arguments, facts and illustrations 

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are things which appeal not to the subcon- 
scious, but to the conscious mind. 

To change a man's supreme subconscious 
want from low to high, from weak to strong, 
from evil to good, you must reach his sub- 
conscious mind. 

To reach any individual's subconscious 
mind you must talk the language of the sub- 
conscious, which is not thought but feeling. 

As stated many times before in this course, 
the subconscious mind is not a thinking, 
intellectual mind, but a feeling, instinctive 
mind. It is not appealed to by reason but by 
" the spirit " of a thing. It is deaf to thoughts, 
but keenly alert to emotions. 

You will never be able to help humanity rise 
to better things until you learn to deal with 
men and women from your heart to theirs. 

The Spirit of Sincerity 

^ This is the real explanation of the magic 
of sincerity. When a man is sincere, we do not 

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so much think it as feel it. His heart is right, 
and our own communes with it. Words and 
phrases are weak, thin and pale beside that 
emotional certainty. 

To convince, to inspire, to help another, 
to change his subconscious content, you must 
feel what you are saying. You must mean it. 
Your interest must be real. It must be genuine. 

To Help Yourself 

<I To help yourself you must do exactly the 
same thing in the same way and with the 
same feeling. You must think of yourself as 
two persons, which in reality you are: the 
weak self and the strong. 

Put you strong self at the helm. Make up 
your mind that that strong self is going to 
dictate your life hereafter. 

Treat your weaker self as though it were 
another individual — an individual whose 
faults threaten to ruin your life. 

You are going to be fair to this individual, 
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to recognize that he is the product of primitive 
ages and therefore not responsible for his 
weaknesses. But you are not going to allow 
him to wreck your twentieth-century life. 

You must first want to help yourself. Then 
you must realize that you can remake your 
life. You must feel it, believe it, know it. 

You want happiness, not mere gratifica- 
tion of an instinct; and it is happiness you 
must have to stay well, to achieve, to realize 
your best, to really live. 

If your subconscious want clashes with 
your ideals you must and can change that 
subconscious want for a better one. 

" Can it be done? " you say. 

It has, and is being done every day by 
thousands of men and women whose instincts 
are just as out of date as yours. 

You have a brain, a mind, a spirit. It is for 
you to decide whether you will live in the 
basement of your lower nature or in the sun 
parlors of your highest self. 
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All these instincts, including the one that 
has been ruining your life, are under the 
full control of your conscious mind at any 
moment you desire to use that power. 

Until recent years science had not dis- 
covered what it was that was wrecking human 
lives, and only recently did we discover 
how to remedy it when we did know. It is 
only just now that we have discovered the 
laws given in this lesson whereby we can 
easily and quickly remake our lives. The 
greatest of all these discoveries is that you can 

Change Your Subconscious Want 

flf You can change the content of your great 
subconscious mind and direct its forces toward 
the achievement of any goal you desire. 

If you will have faith, patience, and even 
a little determination, you can drain out of 
it the things you do not wish to keep and fill 
its batteries with the positive power you need 
for the accomplishment of your highest aims. 

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To Change Your Subconscious Want 

f& To change your subconscious want from 
evil to good, from destructive to constructive, 
you need only to use the shortest, surest, 
swiftest inlet by which anything enters your 
subconsciousness — your conscious mind. 

The conscious mind is the president of 
your corporation. It has the brains and 
intelligence fitted to cope with modern life 
and your personal problems. 

Your subconscious is but the great factory 
which carries out the president's orders. It is 
obedient to his will and his demands, exactly 
as the privates are obedient to the com- 
mander-in-chief of an army. 

The average man, or woman, makes a 
failure of his life because he allows his con- 
scious mind to abdicate, after which the mob 
in his primitive subconscious mutinies. 

Stop wallowing in the trenches of your 
subconscious and take command of that 
army. Consciously decide what it is that 
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your standards demand, and then apply the 
great laws to enforce your orders exactly as 
a general relies upon the laws of court-martial 
when necessary with his army. 

Making Life a Masterpiece 

flf After you have decided what your stan- 
dards and ideals demand; after you have 
realized that you, like thousands of others, 
can get whatever you want, whenever that 
want becomes the supreme one in your sub- 
conscious mind, set about changing the old 
want for the new. You can do so by the very 
simple but stupendous law of suggestion. 

That law is this: Whatever your conscious 
mind affirms, visualizes and suggests to the 
subconscious, the subconscious will build 
into your life. 

Suggest to your own subconscious that 

this thing which you want you are going to 

have; that nothing shall prevent it; that it is 

already coming true in your life. Whenever 

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a thought to the contrary enters your mind 
eject it, not by force, but by turning your 
attention to the thing you want. 

Talk, walk, act, speak, and think as you 
believe that better self will when full grown. 

Because the subconscious mind can not 
resist repeated suggestions from you, it will 
begin to take on the new qualities. You will 
see some of its results within a day; more in 
a week, many in a month, and in a year will 
have so greatly altered your life, capacities, 
and powers that yours will be a new world. 

Your new and strong subconscious want, 
becoming at last embedded in the subcon- 
scious, will, of its own force, bring itself to 
pass in your life exactly as the old and out- 
grown desire once did. 

Thus will you attain your supreme wish; 
thus will you be happy; thus and thus only 
will you become good, and great, and glori- 
ously strong. Thus you may and shall make 
of your life a masterpiece. 

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